A person must continue to walk throughout their life or else, just like the stream that stagnates, all signs of life will slowly disappear and vanish. Water, the giver of life, knows that it must constantly seek change if it is to remain alive, it knows that it must always flow, finding new pathways, and overcoming obstacles if it is to succeed, if it is to reach its journey's end.
Following the path is a journey of discovery, it is a journey of growth, and a journey of evolution. When I began in earnest, seperating myself from the known, the safe, and the secure, my life changed dramatically in ways that I could never have predicted. Guided by my heart, it led me along a pathway that for many years, I had been too scared to tread, too afraid of the possibilities, feeling that I was not deserving of the happiness that awaited, afraid of the consequences that would come if I were to realise my innermost dreams.
There was one significant moment when I came upon two roads that diverged before me. One was a secure looking, safe road, that was well trodden by those who had come before me, and it would make for comfortable, easy walking. The other, now that one was dark and twisting, nothing was discernible around the first bend, it appeared uninviting, and where it led I could not tell. Yet, as I stood before these roads, I knew already the way I would go. Even though I stood a while and debated, argued, and reasoned with myself, the route I would take had been set long ago. My head fought with my heart that day, and as I knew it would, my heart won. I plunged into the darkness and lost myself in the vastness of the unknown.
The irony was of course, that becoming lost on this road was the very thing that helped me to discover myself. Around that first corner, obscured from view, but so tantalisingly close (if you could ever know it), was the greatest, warmest, and brightest light that I have ever seen. It was the light of love that awaits all who seek the true path for themselves. It was the light of understanding of self, of the world, and the universe. I tried to reach that light, I wanted to reach it and attain it, and so I walked faster and faster towards it, always seeking it.
But I could not. Like a dog that chases its own shadow, no matter how hard I tried, I could never reach my goal. The light was always there, shining ever more brightly, burning with an intensity that was hard to look upon. It took me some time to realise that there was one very good reason I could not reach that light, no matter how hard I tried or how fast I ran towards it. The light had led me on a journey to new places, with new people and new experiences. My life was changed, I was changed from the person who I once was. Part of me remained, I could feel that, the old me lived within the new, one and the same, changed yet still the same. And with me were fragments of all the people that I had encountered, all of the places where I had been, and all of the incredible wonders I had experienced, just as I was a fragment within those same people. Everyone I encountered left a mark upon my soul, enriching me, as I too left my mark upon theirs, bonding us forever across space and time.
It was only much later that I was able to come to an understanding. When I had stood and looked upon those two diverging roads, there was never a debate as to which one I would take. I was always going to take the path that I took. It wasn't just about where I was at that moment, it was also about when I was. I was at the right place and I had arrived at the right moment, to be where and when I needed to be so that I could act and make the decision that needed to be made. A decision that was preordained in the mists of time, in the making of the universe. I arrived exactly when I was supposed to arrive, the result of countless trillions of possibilities and happenings.
I was always going to become all that I have become. It was my life purpose. When I was born, it was written in my heart that this is who I would be, these were the things that I would do, and the thoughts that I would have. From that moment on, everything I have ever done has steered me on my journey. Sometimes it has been done unconsciously, without my even realising it, but always I have steered myself on the journey of my own making. I could never have changed it. My heart is too strong, it speaks too loudly for me to ever deny its existence.
I believe that this is the same for everyone of us. Every person has a message written inside their heart. It is the DNA of who they truly are, the person that they are destined to be. If you listen and take heed of that message, then you will find the path that is right for you at exactly the moment when you need it. You too will discover the light that awaits.
And as for that light that I tried so hard to reach? I still cannot touch it, no matter what it is that I do. It still remains there, always out of my reach. Why? Because that light is me and I am the light of the universe that shines the way. I am the light of love. I am the light of life. I am me, and that is all I ever needed to be. The real me, the true me.
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