Finding a Path: Finding a Path is Something Else

Finding a path can be something else. At least, that is my own personal experience. I try to plan my life, but it seems that I always wind up going a different direction.

Perhaps there is no such thing as finding a path? I am more likely to find a road or a highway. Perhaps it turns out more like a freeway. A freeway might not be such a bad idea as a freeway is free. That depends on how you interpret the word, freeway. I have not run into a free path yet. A free path, meaning a path without a roadblock or a detour of some kind, would be a free path to me. Every path that I have ever taken in my life has something, somewhere, that stops me from taking it. That's the story of my life. Take the silly detours, for instance. It takes forever and a day to get around them. These paths are not free at all. There are just too many roadblocks along the way.  

There's other ways to think about free paths, a path without cost.

I have not run into one of those paths yet either, as every path has some way of taking its toll. See that tollbooth over there? I have to pay the piper to use this path. Sometimes, it's pay the pauper time. See that old guy, the pauper who takes his fair share? I never object to paying the old guy, as he always pays me back in some way. Sometimes he shows up with a dozen fresh eggs, or a head of cabbage.

There are many different paths in life that you can take.

Every time I find a different path in my life, that door closes. In fact, it often slams shut right in my face. I can't go through that door, at least not today, it seems to say. Then, a window opens somewhere. I get tired of crawling through those silly, little windows. I am too old for that! I never did like the dusty windows with spiders. Sometimes those spider webs are gorgeous though, especially after it rains. The raindrops just sit there on the spiderwebs waiting for the spiders to take a sip. I watch them as they drink it all right up.

Do you ever try to go back down the same paths? That does not work as there are no roads back. I am always traveling beyond my previous paths, but as soon as I get two or three steps down a new path, I have to back up at least one or two steps. It happens every time, as if I am trying to do some kind of a silly dance, backwards and forwards.

Life is like that sometimes. Dancing is kind of fun, but it would be a lot more fun, if I could find a good partner to dance with down the path of life.

Have you found one yet? It is not an easy thing to do, especially when you get to be my age. You know how to jitterbug? At your age, you could be finding new paths and maybe learn some new dances. With all of your years of experience and wisdom, you should know how to do that by now.

I keep on trying to find new paths. I cannot find one that takes me where I want to go. My paths always seem to take me somewhere else.

Where do you want to go? Maybe my problem in life is the fact that I still don't know where I want to go, even after all of these years. Sometimes I think that I know, but not always.

Why not just take each one of those paths?

The paths that I take are usually full of pitfalls and obstacles, like rocks that I have to climb over, or huge mud holes that I have to wade through. My paths wind up more like endurance tests than anything. Where are all of the good paths anyhow?

Well, to make a long story short, my life is kind of like a wilderness, so going along my paths is more like mountain climbing. Did you ever get to the top of the mountain? As fast I get there, or maybe I should say as soon as I get to the top of one mountain, I see another mountain top, which forces me to find another path. I want to get there too, and so I always have to find another path. It never ends.

I am some kind of an eclectic person by destiny, whatever that is. Some people make up their minds to do something in their lives and they never do anything else. Every time I think that I have found that path in my life, it has some kind of a branch that leads me in a different direction.

Hmm, maybe I need to make a path map. I tried that too, but I always lose the map. I generally wind up at the right destination at one time or another, but I may have to take another route to get there.

Yes, finding a path is something else. I decided that a long time ago. Try to find a path and you will more than likely find something else.