title: Your Life's Path: Discovering and Fulfilling Your Destiny
author: Diane M. Ewing MS
description: Diane M. Ewing, M.S. earned her Master's degree in Human Resource Management, is a former Director of Human Resources, is SPHR certified and a certified practitioner in personality testing. She provides counseling and career consulting services for those seeking guidance in fulfilling their life's path.
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  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  HAUNTED
  
  
    
    
  A mark of destiny.
  
  
  That’s what Mom called the star-shaped birthmark on the inside of my left
  wrist. She said it was destiny’s way of marking me so the world would know to
  have something big planned for yours truly. I’m sure if she were still here
  today she would have changed her mind and believed what I did now—my mark of
  destiny was more like a magnet for tragedy.
  
  
  Mark or magnet aside, something had led me to Corvallis, Oregon—home of Oregon
  State University—several days before winter quarter was scheduled to commence.
  I hovered beside the only remaining companion in my life, unable to muster up
  the courage to take my first step in this new phase of life.
  
  
  The monstrosity before me would be serving as “home sweet home” for the next
  seven months, and if it had a chain-link fence topped with curls of barbed
  wire, it could have been mistaken for a penitentiary instead of a dorm.
  
  
  I took a good look at the brick and mortar face of the change I’