Lately i've watched a couple of movies based upon an individuals choices in life and how they go about their daily routines. It got me thinking about what choices I want to make, par say what road I want to take in life and if it differs from the one I have gone along recently.
First off a little analogy that I thought up recently and revised in my head the best I could. There's two roads that I see that one could take. There's a paved road with clean shoulders/rolling hills and then there's the hilly gravel road that gives off an aura of "stay the hell out." Keep in mind i'm still fairly young and I have not had experiences on any of these roads indefinitely.
The paved road is the road often traveled by society because it's the one in which we inadvertently get nudged into due to family of societal pressures, or some people choose to take this road by choice. The road isn't always paved though, there's construction, potholes, there's times when a tire pops and you veer off onto the gravel shoulder etc. But for the most part in your mind you can envision a beginning middle and end. You start off with formal training whether or not it comes from an institution or hands on experience in a job straight out of highschool. You meet lots of people on this road that you spend a good deal of time with, it could be friends, family, people you meet at parties or people you meet on the job site. Shortly after the beginning you may meet a person in which you become closely aqquainted with and you begin to think about spending the rest of your god given life with this person. Sometime during this road you spill out the phrase "till death do we part." Remember that phrase because I will come back to it another time on another road. Then comes a job that turns into a career that turns into a solid income. You get caught up with a family, maybe some kids, a house on some street and a vacation to "get away from it all" thrown into the mix every few years (if you can afford it). You get into taxes, mortgages, working for the man, leases etc. There's times too when you hit the ditch though. Everyones heard or seen a midlife crisis, maybe a divorce when you decide to change lanes or change direction. It happens, it's becoming a norm for difficulties to arise from money issues or family issues; a part of life. Then you get towards the halfway point of your journey, you start thinking about retirement, your kids are getting older and picking a road themselves. Then you retire, you start trying to live up your dreams (if you can-planning always helps) once you're free of the flat tires and potholes. When you started on this road you get a fuzzy image of what the end is like. Something like fading away into the sunset with the love of your life and eventually death will part you from the world.
Forgive me if I made the paved road sound rather borish and unappealing because from my perspective that is what I see, there's a fantastic chance I am dead wrong though. I will now go into my thoughts on the gravel road, the road that I would love to travel on yet know I shouldn't. It's the road of few constraints, there's few signs warning of bumps, incoming towns
First off a little analogy that I thought up recently and revised in my head the best I could. There's two roads that I see that one could take. There's a paved road with clean shoulders/rolling hills and then there's the hilly gravel road that gives off an aura of "stay the hell out." Keep in mind i'm still fairly young and I have not had experiences on any of these roads indefinitely.
The paved road is the road often traveled by society because it's the one in which we inadvertently get nudged into due to family of societal pressures, or some people choose to take this road by choice. The road isn't always paved though, there's construction, potholes, there's times when a tire pops and you veer off onto the gravel shoulder etc. But for the most part in your mind you can envision a beginning middle and end. You start off with formal training whether or not it comes from an institution or hands on experience in a job straight out of highschool. You meet lots of people on this road that you spend a good deal of time with, it could be friends, family, people you meet at parties or people you meet on the job site. Shortly after the beginning you may meet a person in which you become closely aqquainted with and you begin to think about spending the rest of your god given life with this person. Sometime during this road you spill out the phrase "till death do we part." Remember that phrase because I will come back to it another time on another road. Then comes a job that turns into a career that turns into a solid income. You get caught up with a family, maybe some kids, a house on some street and a vacation to "get away from it all" thrown into the mix every few years (if you can afford it). You get into taxes, mortgages, working for the man, leases etc. There's times too when you hit the ditch though. Everyones heard or seen a midlife crisis, maybe a divorce when you decide to change lanes or change direction. It happens, it's becoming a norm for difficulties to arise from money issues or family issues; a part of life. Then you get towards the halfway point of your journey, you start thinking about retirement, your kids are getting older and picking a road themselves. Then you retire, you start trying to live up your dreams (if you can-planning always helps) once you're free of the flat tires and potholes. When you started on this road you get a fuzzy image of what the end is like. Something like fading away into the sunset with the love of your life and eventually death will part you from the world.
Forgive me if I made the paved road sound rather borish and unappealing because from my perspective that is what I see, there's a fantastic chance I am dead wrong though. I will now go into my thoughts on the gravel road, the road that I would love to travel on yet know I shouldn't. It's the road of few constraints, there's few signs warning of bumps, incoming towns
