There Will Be Time

          Do any of you watch How I Met Your Mother? It’s an American sitcom about 5 very close friends hanging out at MacLaren’s in Manhattan, New York City for almost every single night of their adult lives. Always on that particular bar in that one, specific booth. The sitcom played by Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan or you might know them as Ted Mosby, Robin Scherbatzky, Barney Stinson, Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin. That brilliant movie was created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.

          And if you are familiar with all of them, which episode is your favorite? My most treasured one is the last chapter of season 9 (chapter 23, I believe?). In that last chapter Robin asked Ted :

Robin:
How do you do this Ted? How do you sit out here all night, in the cold, and still have faith that your pumpkin's going to show up?

Ted:
Look I know the odds are the love of my life isn't going to magically walk through that door in a pumpkin costume at 2:43 in the morning. But it seems just as nice as anything to just, you know, sit and wait.

          Ted do meet the love of his life in that last chapter, by the way. The “mother” is the bass player at Robin and Barney’s wedding. The universe somehow sent him the “gigantic sign” that Tracy is the one for him. And on their wedding day Ted says “It was a long, difficult road. But I'm glad it was long and difficult, because if I hadn't gone through hell to get there, the lesson might not have been as clear.” And he added “You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, for as long as I can and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second. I carried that lesson through every stupid fight we ever had, every 5 a.m. Christmas morning, every sleepy Sunday afternoon, every speed bump, every pang of jealousy or boredom or uncertainty that came our way. I carried that lesson with me.”

          So there will be time. For everything. For your life to finally made sense. For your “one” to finally showed up and your love to finally bloom. There will be time. You just have to believe that it will. Well, happy waiting and don’t forget to have fun along the way! You got this!  

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