Pathwalking 3

There are good days, and bad days.

Some days I feel excited.  I am exhilarated by the possibility the new day represents.  I am looking forward to what lies ahead.  I am ready for anything.

And then, some days, I am exhausted.  My energy is sapped, my mind wanders easily.  I don’t want to do much beyond bum around, maybe sleep.  I can barely concentrate, I don’t want to think or do anything.

Those days it is hard to stay on the path.  Those days are the days when I feel disconnected, when I am lamenting my finances or my fitness.  They are days when I look at where I am now, and get frustrated because I am not certain how this is where I came to be.

That’s one of the larger factors in this process.  Walking along the path, if we are less conscious of the path, this is how we wind up in the places we do not WANT to be.  This is how we get into ruts, into depression.  Because we see the effect of the past thought, of not consciously choosing how we walk the path…and that is how we are here, today.

This is one of the key aspects of what I am getting at with regards to these weekly posts, and the entire concept of pathwalking as I am explaining it.  We all walk paths, certainly – but how many of us consciously choose our paths, observe what we have along the path, versus lament what we left behind and worry or focus exclusively on what is ahead of us?

That’s the problem I have all too often.  I am caught up in the things that are less-than-desired in my life, and let them upset me.  I focus on them, give them attention – and then wonder why I am struggling to make more money, get into better shape, find job satisfaction.  Because while I have chosen the path I wish to walk now…I have been less diligent in choosing previously.  So here I am, today.

Now this…the here and now…is a MAJOR aspect of the path we walk.  We cannot ignore it.  Neither can we change how we arrived at it.  But what we can do is choose, from here, where we go.  We can select from this point where we will go on the path.

You can’t ignore the past nor the present, or be overly focused on the goal, either.  Which, admittedly, makes this a VERY complicated concept.  In especial living as we do in this instant-gratification-have-it-all-now world.  But you can work to strike the necessary balance, reconcile the past, present and future with the path you walk…and, I believe, we can go where we want to go.

Without a doubt, my whole concept is abstract.  But that’s part of this entire process, and the weekly posts about it.  I want to quantify, explore, and understand this idea.  It’s an abstract concept in my head…and I need to get past the abstract to make it work for me, as I believe in my heart that I can.

Others have put this out in different terms, colored by their own belief systems.  The Secret, the Law of Attraction, Consciousness Creates Reality…it all comes back to this same place.

I know the path I want to talk.  I work, daily, to choose to be on that path.  There are good days, and there are bad days.  But I strive to find more good days than bad.

This is the third in my weekly posts. These weekly posts are specifically about walking along the path of life, and my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. Thank you for joining me.