How often do you ask yourself why?
What you’re about to read isn’t entirely about me. It’s also about you, your life, and your goals. Think of it like a road you’ve never been down. And like all roads, it leads somewhere. But the question is, where?
And that’s why it involves you. The journey may take the shape of a question for some people, while for others, it will be an answer. Whatever it is for you, I would only ask you to consider the road not taken. Because we’ve all been taught to follow one path or another to reach wherever the world told us we should be.
Yet, it’s the other of those roads I took, which is why I’m telling the story. However, no tale is complete without heroes and monsters, and I’ve been both. Because of this, you may be tempted to think the story is about someone who never accomplished what he set out to do. But it isn’t.
I didn’t fail, even though that’s what I was taught would happen when I went off the path. Instead, I discovered something amazing, and that’s what this story is. But as you read, I’d like to ask you to remember how easy it is to look at someone else and think, “This person failed.”
That’s groupthink. It keeps us on the path we’re supposed to follow. And most of the time, we don’t even know we’re doing it. So, open your eyes.
It isn’t about me. It’s about you.
But let’s get back on the road. You see, there are many paths we travel in life. Some are much harder than others, but few of us are prepared for how demanding those journeys can be. This is because we’re taught about destinations for most of our lives.
Few people tell us about the roads it takes to get somewhere. Instead, our focus is on growing up and getting to the same nowhere everyone else got. That’s why so many of us arrive at the same destination with more or less the same jobs, goals, and life plans.
We all get taught to want it because everyone else who has it is happy. But they aren’t. They don’t even know what ‘it’ is. They’re too worried about happiness instead of joy.
However, more and more people are waking up. They realize the destination is rarely more important than how one gets there. In fact, sometimes, the roads we travel are the only thing worth remembering.
This is because the road is where boys and girls get hammered into men and women. It’s a place we get lost and accidentally find ourselves. Outside, alone and cold, on an empty highway, hoping against all odds that this is the road that will lead us home.
Let’s walk together a ways…
Most of my life has been spent on one road or another. I’ve hurt, cried, loved, and laughed along the way. But more than anything else, things dear to me fell behind until I lost them.
Looking back over my experiences on these roads is like looking over a map made from a web of scars. Every hurt or joy has traced its own path across my soul. And it’s these things and others I’ll be writing about.
I’d like to invite you to join me. After all, it’s about you too. Remember? So find one of my books about ancient tales, life, or war, and start the journey. Maybe we’ll meet one day in a coffee shop or a cafe on a mountain top.
Or perhaps we’ll just pass each other on the road. You in your direction and me in mine. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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