Fork in the Road

Everyone has a time in their life that tests their strengths & weaknesses to a point that can completely change the way you always had seen life before in ways that might be unrepairable. Sometimes, you get to the point in your life where you've grown far beyond the things that you are stuck around and you're shackled into a life that you didn't really want to create. The things you originally wanted, change, and you have the ability now to shed your old skin to grow anew or never completely come out of it and never grow in a higher level of awareness, intelligence, or even self-respect. And sometimes you get to a point in your life where you have to let go of certain people that are holding you back, leeching onto you trying to make you something you're not. After all, when you try to make yourself be something you're not, your forcing yourself into a lower system in which you lose yourself. A system that controls you more than you control yourself.

I've come to a fork in the road of my life. A road in which the future doesn't look as promising as my past and where I spend more time looking in the rear view mirror than jumping in the car and going on an unplanned road trip. I've been so worried about what people think, what people feel, to a point where I forget what I want and what I need as a person. I've come to realize that most people wait for happiness to arrive after some huge life changing moment but the moment is now. Take the time to do things that make you happy. Take the time to do things that scare you, thrill you, or fill your curiosity. Take the time to look at the world around you and appreciate all that life offers. Be nice to the people you encounter. Offer help to those in need. Make a difference. The time to start making a difference is now by accepting who you are as a person. All things good and bad. Show it off to the world with pride and be all you can be. Don't measure success by anything more than your own satisfaction. Success isn't the job that you work at, the house you live in, the car you drive... no. It's being happy with who you are inside and out and feeling happy with life to the point no one can bring it down from you. That, to me, is real success.

We do not have destinies to fill. We make our own. We do not have fate to control what happens in our life. What we make of life is by our own doing and how we all shape our future is in our own hands. Laugh a little more and cry a little less. Turn a light on in the dark and turn the lights off to admire the constellations in the night sky. Don't be afraid of anything and always remember that the only true boundary we all face is the one we place in front of ourselves.