Follow The Path Until It Changes

Young people look forward to the future.  Old people look back on the past.  Young people are unsure of what they should do.  Old people wish they had known what they should have done.  Young and old are relative, though.  People in their teens don't have much to look back on.  People in their 80s may not have much to look forward to.  But the people in between can do both.

The cool thing about the young is that they can be completely engrossed in a plan.  They can have their set plan on a career or life plan start working on it right away.  But the funny thing is, those plans often change.  Some fall through and require a brand new plan.  Some evolve into different plans over time.  Some plans are abandoned when new, better ones present themselves.

Imagine you start writing a story that was going to be an action movie.  You had a basic plot as a vehicle for the action, but you ended up creating an interesting relationship and beating the bad guy in the first section.  Well, maybe this isn't meant to be an action movie.  Maybe it's supposed to be a romantic movie.  Follow that relationship and see how it ends up.

Your romantic movie may be superb.  But you know what?  You never would have written that story if you didn't try to make an action movie in the first place.

When we look back on life, we see how things have changed.  This acts as a hindrance.  "I tried to biologist, but I ended up as a proofreader."  It makes you wonder how you can proceed with life knowing that your plans will probably not come to fruition.  But the thing is, you will never do anything or go anywhere if you don't try to in the first place.

Whatever ideas you have, go with them.  Follow the path until it changes.  Maybe it will never change and you'll follow that path until you die.  But if it does change, then it changed.  But remember that it only happened because you followed your dreams in the first place.