Life paths are tricky, sometimes deliciously evil sorts and other times unabashedly honest quips. These paths curl themselves through, around, above and beyond family, drama, drinking, fighting, loving, careers, money & anything else we are all so fortunate to endure.
Life paths are responsible for intertwining this all-too-small-world's cultural diversity, acceptance & understanding as well as the abuse, hatred, confusion & chaos. These paths leave us breathless with anticipation, needed or not in an unequivocal sense, stressed from the multitude of choices, even more stressed from the lack of urgency, and eager...perhaps over-eager to run around the next bend. Because that is what this life is...isn't it? A series of choices. A series of weaving paths that lead you through the labyrinth of culture.
And when we finally glimpse that light at the end of the labyrinth, a decision is made to take a different path and discover what trial, mistake, dramatic episode, life altering moment and new discovery we can manage to cook up before we step off the edge of our destined path into oblivion.
Simplicity is realizing that in reality, we all, every age group, are complex ...yes... but unseasoned, immature, inexperienced creatures learning "newness" every day of our lives. Brilliance comes from never forgetting this...never forgetting how much more there is to learn: searching out cures for the world, dreaming up designs for the future, re-building our environment, raising families, supporting loved ones, lending a helping hand, swallowing pride to accept a lending hand and showing appreciation. Appreciation above all, for man kind, diversity, awareness, understanding, achieving, acceptance and giving.
What these paths mean in essence, is not determined by what they will bring us, but by the attitude we bring in traveling them and not so much by what happens to us, as by the reaction we have to what happens.
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