The path

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Each and every one of us are unique, and all of us walk our individual paths through life. Looking around it seems that some people are walking on ‘easy street’, while others are navigating a dirt road filled with potholes, with no end in sight.

It is one of those things where we truly cannot compare ourselves ~ or our paths ~ to others. Our path is the one of our own choosing, perfectly tailored for the lessons we choose to bring into our current life experience. And while one path may seem easy to a casual observer, it may still be hard for the person walking it ~ and vice versa.

So it is not just about the path itself, but about the situations we encounter on our individual paths, and perhaps most importantly; how we react to those situations. How we deal with them, as that allows us to learn great things! About ourselves, about the world we live in, even about the universe itself.

Of course there will always be situations we find ourselves in and experiences we encounter that will need solutions ~ while we may also find an obstacle or two on our paths that may well be inconvenient, yet our best choice could be to not try to bring them to resolution.

So if we can only truly experience our own, personal path; if we cannot realistically compare our paths to the path of someone else ~ then the only thing that is left is how we react to that which we encounter while walking our paths.
How we gauge what is happening to us on our personal scale of ‘hard or easy’ is something that is based on our personal life experience up to that point. It is colored by the lessons we have chosen to learn this time around, and how willing we are to actually work with them at this point in time. And sometimes it seems that the things that are thrown onto our paths are so unexpected, coming from so far ‘out there’ that we may feel stunned momentarily…

Ultimately though, it is our choice as to how we react to what life ~ and our individual paths through it ~ has to offer us. We can choose to come from a negative perspective; we can resist change until there is no way out anymore. Or we can come from a positive viewpoint, being curious what doors will open now that this one has been slammed shut; embracing the changes that come with it.

The one thing to always keep looking for is what we need  ~ not want or desire ~ to get out of that particular situation. What do we need to learn; what do we need to change inside of ourselves.
As long as we do that, chances are our individual paths may smooth out considerably.
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