THE LONELY ROAD

THE LONELY ROAD

Each of us feels the call, or urge, to take a certain direction in life. In fact many directions will call, through a lifetime, sometimes more than one at a time. We must then make choices at the fork in the road. Some roads we will never walk.

Other people will try to steer us in other directions, to suit them, or to remain with the crowd. We may indeed walk with the crowd; some never leave it. But we have the choice to leave the crowd if we don’t like the way it travels, or it ceases to travel while we need to move forward.

Did you notice after being away for a long time that the same people drink in the same bars, and talk about the same things. They are going no-where. If we have moved on there is no longer common interest.

There is being alone, and there is being lonely. They can overlap, but we all need some time to ourselves, and even couples are better being independent spirits who are at ease both with each other, and alone, away from each other. When one depends on the other, or each depends on the other, it is an unhealthy situation. Where each is independent that creates a stronger relationship.

As we choose our path through life we will meet fellow travellers and share a moment, a day, a week or even a lifetime. There will be inner peace as we are completely free to choose what we want to do.

We can go with the flow, and no-one is there to force us to do the opposite.

Copyright
David Millner
26 August 2010