The Fork in the Road
You have all heard of the fork in the road. A deciding point in your life where you must make a choice and decide to go one way, or the other. We all come across them but what is addressed most of the time in this analogy is how to choose.
Weigh out the pros and cons. Think about what you want to really do, your gut feeling. Many factors weight in to that aspect, of choosing a path, but what if we are at that fork at the road… and do not move?
We can only continue along paths, progress, if we are moving. If we carry on, and keep on walking. If you walk, then it seems natural that you will take a fork in the road and continue along your path.
Instead of simply looking at the path, we could attempt to look at what is towards that path, to help us decide, but what if we don’t know what is at the end of that path? Where will that path lead us? Uncertainty and doubt will beset us and then we question which path to take. Furthermore, the doubts and uncertainty make us fearful. We take a moment to reflect.
A moment becomes a week, a month, a year.
Before you know it, you’ve taken neither road. The fork appears to turn into a myriad of paths, leading to so many places, and you still don’t know which path to take, where to go.
It might seem simple, to simply walk on. There are so many factors to consider! So in the end, standing still might be a benefit. When you look down the paths ahead of you, whichever they may be, simply look a little further and ponder: will I regret taking this path? If you feel that you might regret taking one, more than the other, take the path where you feel you might regret it the most.
If you can imagine that a few years later, down that path near the end, and look back to right now and realize, taking this path ‘made all the difference’, then you did well. Because it will put you where you are then, and hopefully it will be a better place.
No, I am certain it will be. Remember to keep moving forward, even if you take small steps on that new path. Every journey, begins with one first step.
