" If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path."
~ Joseph Campbell
We finally got enough snow to actually have something to shovel. That is unusual for where I live. Here in Upstate New York, there's usually already several inches of snow on the ground. We've had more rain than snow so far this winter, but February and March are usually the months when Mother Nature makes up for it.
I was watching the folks next door shovel a path from the front steps to the street and around to the back of the house. At the same time, their kids were marching around in the front yard making footsteps in the snow and blazing their own paths. It was an amazing stroke of synchronicity when the above quote fell into my lap a few hours later. It reminded me that sometimes when we travel down a path just because it's free of debris, or, in this case, snow, that doesn't always make it the best path to travel. It is when we blaze our own path through life, one step at a time, one decision at a time, that we can honestly claim it as our own. And as Robert Frost reminds us so eloquently, taking the "road less traveled" really does make all the difference.
Watching the children outside gave me the idea to put on my boots and blaze my own path from the rear of my apartment building, across the parking lot, and over to the dumpster to take out my trash and recyclables even before the owners came and ploweded the lot. It made me feel like a kid myself again, and following my footsteps back home gave me an undeniable sense of knowing that I was headed in the right direction.
And so it is.
I was watching the folks next door shovel a path from the front steps to the street and around to the back of the house. At the same time, their kids were marching around in the front yard making footsteps in the snow and blazing their own paths. It was an amazing stroke of synchronicity when the above quote fell into my lap a few hours later. It reminded me that sometimes when we travel down a path just because it's free of debris, or, in this case, snow, that doesn't always make it the best path to travel. It is when we blaze our own path through life, one step at a time, one decision at a time, that we can honestly claim it as our own. And as Robert Frost reminds us so eloquently, taking the "road less traveled" really does make all the difference.
Watching the children outside gave me the idea to put on my boots and blaze my own path from the rear of my apartment building, across the parking lot, and over to the dumpster to take out my trash and recyclables even before the owners came and ploweded the lot. It made me feel like a kid myself again, and following my footsteps back home gave me an undeniable sense of knowing that I was headed in the right direction.
And so it is.
