Now interestingly enough, all journeys begin with a dream. Whether they were just a vision, an epiphany, or some inclination that one was meant to be somewhere...a dream is still the first step taken along a journey to Life. And here's the thing about a journey...like all roads they have a map. A map that's meant to guide us along the safest pathway to our destination, the clearest route to reach our calling, or sometimes...the hardest road to find our fate.
Like many maps, sometimes things become complicated, the lines on the pages fade, the distance between the source and the destination become warped, and everything simply becomes hazy. You see, we all have dreams, and we all know what we want in life at some or other point in our life...it's complications that make us wonder...and I mean this in both ways. Complications cause us to stray along forgotten pathways, cause us to forget the route we're travelling, and eventually you lose the breadcrumbs you left behind to guide you back in the event of you getting lost; complications also cause doubt, skepticism and soon renders us susceptible to suggestion, allowing any other waypoint arrow or voice to misdirect us onto roads that we were never meant to travel at all, to destinations we were never meant to meet.
The moment you hit a snag you see...is the moment you need to find courage and confidence, both in the map that you've drawn up for yourself, as well as confidence in your abilities and within your character. Because walking off even slightly along a different path, will cause you to hit another detour, and from there another and another. Pretty soon you'll find yourself in a place you don't want to be, surrounded by people you don't really know, people who don't really know or care about you, doing the things you never thought you would, in a time you can barely even remember...Soon you lose yourself, you lose your focus...you lose your dream.
Because here's the difference between two paths. A subtle difference you rarely will see. A path long ago constructed, and journey long ago begun...The one will guide you to a dream...the other will simply become your fate...so which path have you chosen? Or should we be asking, where have we found ourselves today?
In many ways I agree whole heartedly with you but there are many roads that leads to success...its the detours and the knocks of life that builds our character and makes us a stronger person. Its been a while since I met such a strong willed and focussed individual especially at your age. I have no doubt that you will be successful in whatever you do. Sometimes on that toad you may go through a tunnel and at times it may seem that there is no light at the end of the tunnel....and more often than not there may seem that there is no light at the end of that tunnel but often we need a travel just little further and go around the bend to see the light. I know I went recently went through one of those tunnels and I was inspired by a special individual to take a few more steps around that bend.
ReplyDeleteIn the end yes it takes courage and more importantly perserverance to be successfull.
Listen to your heart and think with your head but follow your intuition.
WK
Hey WK!! Indeed there are many paths that lead to a brilliant and resolute future, sometimes for the better, but sometimes merely a watered down version of what we really wanted. And yes, it is the kinks in the road that make us stronger individuals, and the true tests to individuation and actuation are often found along bends and deep within tunnels. Though...the problem with a bend, is that they can never be seen when the direction we're facing is straight ahead, so we often miss these opportunities, and in worse cases avert another dark path. In truth, it is easier to walk the straight and narrow road, and less complicated to stick to one path, perhaps not the right one if growth is what you're after...but generally success is assessed as the individuals who have reached their destinations of a brighter future, the way they saw it, covering the shortest distance, over the shortest time. And the fastest way to do that, is to simply walk straight.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you tunnel has lead you to a great place, where you are happy with who you are, what you have and where you've come from. Otherwise...what's the point of the light at the end of a tunnel, when you can't bare to look back at the tracks you left behind from the light on the other side, and simply appreciate it...
Thanks for the post...J