Finding Your Way

By Shereema Ibrahim, 3/14/05

 

No matter what the age, we are constantly trying to find our way.  A young toddler looks all around and tries to figure out where he or she wants to go and why.  This thought is relatively simple unlike that of adults who want to get somewhere and take so many different paths trying to reach a given destination.

There are so many ways for us to travel to our various destinations throughout our lifetime, but only some are worth travelling.  Often a road will present itself, seemingly like the logical direction to go.  Then along the way we will find so many up-hills, mudslides, rivers with no bridges to cross and mountains with no safe way of climbing.  What do you do if you come to such a point?  Do you turn around and go back to the beginning or do you forge ahead on the course you chose even though you know it’s a mistake?

 

Sometimes the path we take starts straight and easy to travel, but then the terrain starts to change to a more difficult course.  It’s easy to say that we should just stop moving forward and retreat, but this is not always the best solution.  Staying on course and adjusting to the new terrain is probably the better way to go.  Throughout the course of life, we will have to adapt to the circumstances or environment we are in currently.  This does not mean changing who we are or where we want to go, only how we get there.

From the very beginning, we start foreseeing where we want to be.  The difficult thing is trying to get there.