Serendipity

I had just turned twenty and reached a point in my life when I realized two things. I needed to make some changes in my life. That; in essence I needed to try and become a better person. The second thing I realized was I had no earthly idea how to do that.
I began to study various schools of thought, I read every thing I could get my hands on. Self help books, The Torah, The Bhagavad Gita, The Old and New Testaments, The book of Mormon, The Rigveda, assorted "apocryphal" writings.
I had reached some thing of an impasse and decided to take a break. I had gone to a favorite book store and was picking my way through the used Sci-Fi and on the way out I decided to have a look at the shelf marked "Eastern Religion" I ran my fingers across the spines and fished out an old paper back copy of The Quran. At the time I had no way of knowing the effect this have in the rest of my life.