As we travel down life’s highway, we might find that where we are headed is not exactly where we might think we could have been. The proverbial fork in the road sometimes leads us to different destinations than we set out. Sometimes it might be a good thing and sometimes it might turn out to be regretful.
Is it by happenstance that we find our way to a destination? Is it possible that we might have somewhere down the road took the wrong fork? If this were the case it dose not mean that we are heading into oblivion, or that we are doomed. If we learn to read the road signs we might avoid the realization of a wrong road taken and know for sure if we are headed toward our destiny with complete confidence.
Some folks have no destination or guidance, and they bounce around life as a pin ball zigzagging around and going no where until they fall out of society for good. Their fork in the road was taken without hesitation, or remorse. Their choosing the wrong forks, almost seems on purpose and with no direction and search for nothing and find nothing in return. They are unaware that they might have had a chance for a better life.
The average person may have some degree of forethought in what direction they want to go and may strive to make certain they are heading in a true path. A life traveler has to be aware that some of the forks in the road are clearly marked’. ’ Some are not marked at all and leave us to go onward to find the ones that are marked
A funny thing about roads is, they can always lead you back to where you started. Second chances are always there for us, and hopefully we won’t veer too far off the road to get a second chance.
In Robert Frosts classic poems ‘The Road Not Taken’, we can get some ideal of things endured and things we might miss by choosing a wrong fork. We might miss something wonderful and we might miss a catastrophe and we might miss nothing at all.
I shall be telling this with a sigh. Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that made all the difference. --- Robert Frost
Yoga Berra said in his book, "If you find a fork in the road take it” this is a humorist play on this topic and deserves mentioning because even though Yoga was, tongue-in-cheek, referring to an eating utensil I believe that he actually meant to take the right fork in a road if possible. They always are forks in the road and paths to explore. Let us all take the ones that will lead us to peace love and kindness, and blessings well fall into place. Good judgment, is always a plus in maintaining a right direction. Traveling through life is a challenge. We are only here for a short while. Hopefully we can make our journey easer by good judgments and trying hard to choose the right forks in our roads.