The perfect path through life is impossible to define. How you choose from the paths ahead of you is everything.
How we react to life’s infinite capacity to surprise is everything. In every moment, we have an infinite array of choices available to us as to what we do next. An often infinite variety of potential paths forward (or sideways, or backward, etc) from which to choose. But it is likely that the choice we make in any given moment will be pulled from a narrower range of options.
You could argue that most choices boil down to whether we choose to flexible or inflexible. We might choose to go with the flow. We might choose to stand firm. At various times, either of these might prove to be the best choice (or the least bad choice).
The perfect path through life is impossible to define. Perhaps there is no perfect path. But likely you can make a good go of it by knowing when to be flexible and when to be inflexible. Both flexibility and inflexibility will be the correct course of action at different times in your life.
When is it best to be flexible? There are times in life when it really is best to go with the flow, to allow yourself to be open to influence, to change, to adapt and to learn in line with the path that life has in store for you. This is the more tactical (and/or at times the more opportunistic) end of things.
When is it best to be inflexible? There are other times in life when you ought never to compromise, never to listen to that inner voice telling you that it’s OK to let this one slide. This is where your values come into play, come into their own.
You can’t be anybody else but yourself. You can’t have any other values than your own. Trust in them.
May you be nothing but kind today, to others and to yourself.
May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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- John Singer Sargent – A Winding Road and Cypress Trees, San Vigilio 1913.jpg via Wikimedia Commons.
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