Pathwalking 53
How do I find a path to choose in the first place?
Pathwalking requires a path. Sometimes, it is not just a matter of choosing a path…it is a matter of finding a path to choose.
This is sometimes simple, sometimes seemingly impossible. But everyone has the ability to make choices, and as such anyone can find a path to choose.
But how do I find the path? Where do I look for a path?
This is not something that can be found without. This, like most things in life, will come from within.
What is it you want from your life? Who do you want to be? What do you want to do? What is your bliss, your passion, your desire? Who are you?
These are the questions that will show you a path. Any one or combination of these questions will open the door, and reveal a variety of choices.
This is why there is always more than one path. Because different paths represent different aspects of various questions. Asking the questions is the beginning. Answering them will lead to the journey.
Too simple? Perhaps. But let’s look at something rather closely here. How often do we really, truly, ask these questions? Not facetiously, not half-seriously, but for real, ask: What is it I want from my life? Who do I want to be? What do I want to do? What is my bliss, my passion, my desire? Who am I?
This is one of the reasons I have been composing these posts over the past year. When I started to ask myself these questions, for real, I found that I wanted the answers. And when I started to seek those answers, I found paths before me.
These questions are seldom answered easily. They require time, they require exploration. These questions may not produce static answers, either. What is it you want from your life? The answer when you are a high school student is probably different from the answer when you are a thirty-something, or the answer when you are a senior citizen.
And this is why there are always multiple paths, and why there are never truly endings to Pathwalking. Because the answers will change, because change is inevitable. Because the paths are seldom straight, and the answers to the questions always shifting, there is never just a single choice.
This should not be overwhelming, or intimidating, or scary. It is exciting. It is a world of open possibilities. Finding a path should encourage walking the path.
If the notion of walking along a given path you have found does not thrill you, does not excite and inspire you, I don’t advise choosing that path. Pathwalking is about finding what you want to do and be, it is about finding happiness. So if the process of walking a prospective path fills you with dread or dis-ease, or frankly anything other than excitement and joy, seek another.
Ask the questions. When you find your paths, you choose which path you wish to walk. When one path ends, another begins.
This is not an endless cycle in any negative sense. It is choice without end. This should not be something that makes you unhappy…having choices in our lives keeps them interesting. Having choices and the ability to choose between them is what sets us apart from the other animals on this island Earth.
Rather than do the easy thing, and let life live you, or let choices choose you…choose for yourself. That is the idea of Pathwalking. Once the path is found, the real fun begins.
How do I find a path to choose in the first place? Ask yourself all the questions, and find which you want to answer. With that choice, you have found your path. Examine it, get a feel for it. And then, walk it.
An idea both simple and complex, all at the same time. But that is why we choose Pathwalking. Because Life is both simple and complex.
Which questions do you ask to find your paths?
This is the fifty-third entry in my series. 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.
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