A door that opens before us

Life is about opportunities. It's about doors that open...and they stay open usually for just a short time. Then they close. Almost all of our lives are actually goverened by these choices that we make...to take the opportunity, and try...or to stand and watch the door as it shuts before us. Some doors we should walk through. Some we shouldn't. Some, we will walk through, and the result will not be of benefit. Others may change our lives for the better so entirely that we cannot even imagine who we were before went through. But the only place that we can go where we will find ourselves in a different place from where we are now...is through a door that opens before us.

The Palm-Lined Hege Maze

I have always lived by this primary set of words...words that truly reflect my soul:

"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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference."

That is Robert Frost, explaining my life as he explained his own.

I didn't really choose that part of me...it was simply me, at my core. I did not choose the 'path less travelled by' just because it WAS different from everyone else and that I did not want to 'follow the herd'. I chose the path because the path everyone else was following...it just wasn't what was in me, in my deepest part. In my core. In my soul.

So, due to that inherent part of my inner super-structure, I certainly have been led on a wonderful, wild ride in this life, and I have loved MOST all of it's moments, good and bad. Yes, to be sure, as this blog reflects, I suppose this last "turn down the path untrodden" did lead to a more "boggy" ride than the rest.

You see, 3 years ago, after my health stuff and my getting-laid-off-in-corporate-America-because-of-my-health-stuff, I did explore an entirely new path, as yet untrodden by 99.9999999% of people on this planet. I said, "I love Hawaii, I love Maui, why not live there and make that my home and succeed from there!". FABULOUS CONCEPT.

In function, however, it was much like wandering into a MOST spectacular English Hedge-Maze, where the maze was lined with palm trees and perfect-blue 73-degree ocean water....but there was no exit other than from the entry point I came in on.

Imagine that. Perfect English Garden. Hedge-Maze in the middle, and this one was the most beautiful maze you ever saw, with palm-trees and ocean-views. But there was no way out.

So I spent 3 years there, appreciating the miracle of the beauty for the first 2 years, and sadly, not appreciating it for the last 1. But I now found my way back to the beginning. To the exit, which was the entrance before.

Now I move past the maze, and into...what?

The future. The joy of another day. Of opening possibilities.

I can only pray, each and every day, that I remember and treasure the words of Jonathan Swift, who said, so aptly, "May you Live all the days of your life."