A new path....

Sitting on a road that is not well traveled you find yourself alone. Nothing around you for miles, no one to hear your voice, no one to lend you a hand to help you up from your sitting position on a road that is nothing but dirt that blinds your vision when the wind kicks up. You hear a voice telling you to get up, a voice that is ultimately telling you that no one is going to walk this road for you. You get up and brush the dirt off of your pants as you notice the sky around you turning dark. Which direction do you go? How did you get here? Where is here? These questions start pondering in your mind as you start walking, not knowing where you are headed.

You have walked what has felt like miles, your legs weak, almost jelly like. You look behind you and you can see this figure sitting on the ground in the middle of the road. Who was this dark, cold, sad figure that you are staring at but don’t ever remember passing during your walk? “Keep going” you eerily hear in your ear. “Come to me” you hear, brushing your ear as if it was just buzzed by a mosquito.

The sky has been dark for what has felt like hours and as you regain strength in your legs you start to see a faint light in front of you. You are walking this road alone, and out of the sides of your vision, you start seeing flashbacks of times in your life when you felt like nothing was left. What did this mean? Why were these visions encompassing my mind? Pushing forward the visions start to fade and the light in front of you starts to become more bright like a pair of headlights.

The figure behind you has disappeared into the darkness behind you and flowing over you, you feel a new sense of being. The chains breaking off, the lights getting brighter, the darkness being left behind, the voice of reason whispering into your ear. You finally realize why you had to take this journey down this abandoned and desolate road by yourself. In order to move forward in life, you had to walk through your own wrongs and darkened past. You had to see what was behind you while walking onto a new path, one that was brighter and filled with hope and confidence.

I want you to walk your own path. Don’t expect anyone to hold your hand because only you are in charge of the script of life. If you don’t like the path you are on, make a change. Leave it behind, see the light and walk towards it. New beginnings and opportunities lie ahead of you. Don’t ever think you aren’t enough for something. Get up and start walking. Don’t stop until you reach that light and leave all of your darkness and mistakes in the past.