Encompass

I decided to take a week off from blogging. Sorry to my regulars, I've been slammed lately.

This last week has just been so hectic, there has barely been any time to even rest. But what can I say, I've taken on the responsibility and I just have to keep going from this point. Seems like the story of our lives, just carrying out our routine events. Never seems like we're going anywhere, just going down a straight path to nowhere. I mean, when you think realistically about it, that's pretty much all it is, just day after day, living life until you finally reach the end of the road. Grim to a point to imagine, but in the basic structure of human life, that is the only sure thing that bonds us all together: birth, life, and death. Headed north and nowhere else.

Of course, there's always the bend in the road.

The path that leads off the main road. That thin stretch of dirt that beckons change and challenges difference. Finding what direction you truly want to take in life. Straying off from the north, headed north east, and then east, and then south, and so on. The compass that keeps us on track is truly a remarkable thing to behold, because really this sense of direction is internal, just as it normally is in any real life situation. The path we take in our lives is not necessarily that which is destined or which we are meant to know where we are going. Sometimes you just...gotta keep going, y'know? I've mentioned this metaphor of walking down a road previously, but it still remains the same. Aimlessly walking is not something to fear or think that it achieves nothing. In fact, often it is not the future that needs thought. It is the present, the path that is directly in front of you. Sure, there may be a few pot holes or long stretches with no direction change, but they cannot be seen unless you are looking directly in front of you.

The time is now, my friends.