"Although he was following the well-worn path, he had a growing feeling that he was lost."
"Well...I've been following the path. It seems as if many people have taken it before me, and there have been many signs along the way..." In the story, this little boy is following a path. Although he's drawn to go outside of it. He is guided in the proper direction through out the book, by a cat. Then finally a bird asks the boy " But where do YOU want to be going?" The boy's response is that he's uncertain exactly of where he wants to be going, but he does know he's not heading there by following the path. The bird then says to him, "Ask yourself where it is you want to go, and then follow the signs you already know." I'm a night owl. I do my best work, from sketching, to writing, to designing, to anything at all, when the sun is down. Finally at the end of the book, the boy begins to in fact see his signs...IN THE SKY... And by following his own path, he begins the journey of life.
Knowing your lost, or on the wrong path, is SO insanely difficult, especially when the signs you see are the ones you THINK you should be seeing. A friend said the other day, that while he didn't know where he should be, he did know where he was wasn't right. So in a leap of faith, he quit pushing himself to do something that felt wrong...and began to figure out what exactly he needed to feel he was right.
It's not easy to see the bigger picture when your one of the main points of the photograph. Sometimes, in a leap of honest faith, we have to force ourselves to literally jump out of the box. And hope and pray that when we stand back up, and brush ourselves off, we are able to actually look at the entire piece of art with our soul.
How is it though that we know we're lost? We don't. Sometimes, people may hop off the beaten path only to find themselves craving it later on, as it was actually the one they wanted to be on. The only way to really find out though, is to just go ahead and do it.
Follow your dreams...look into the sky...and realize that while most look to the suns placement to route their course, others, like me, look instead to the moon.
Follow Your Dreams,
Don't Ever Give Up
Jump if YOU Want...
And Have Faith in Yourself...
"Where there's a will, there's a way". Where there's your will, there's your way...even though it may bring us to the same place, our ways of travel may be entirely different. ;)
Quite Kindly Yours,
Melli
