You think your life will be a series of straight lines--a career path from entry to training to managing, a family path from meeting to marriage to parenthood, a personal path from questions to learning to answers. Yet, how many times are the lines really straight? How often are they actually wiggly or swervy or full of so many turns that it's hard even to see the path ahead?
I am learning, slowly, how to stay on the road, even when the twists and turns make me a little dizzy. I am learning to keep walking, even if I can't quite see my destination. I am learning to speed up when I can and slow down when I have to. And I am learning that sometimes, it takes a lot of walking the path before you can turn a corner.
It takes a lot of going to the gym before you can see the results.
It takes a lot of reaching out and breathing in and writing and rewriting before people see you in different ways.
It takes a lot of falling down and dusting off and looking around before you can envision yourself in different ways.
It takes a lot of following the straight and wiggly and swervy paths before you can actually turn a corner.
And it takes a lot of faith to keep believing that what you can't quite see is worth turning for.
Because you never really know until you turn the corner.
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