Your Path Is Always Right

If people offer their help or wisdom as you go through life, accept it gratefully. You can learn much from those who have gone before you.

But never be afraid or hesitant to step off the accepted path and head off in your own direction, if your heart tells you that it's the right way for you.
Always believe that you will ultimately succeed at whatever you do, and never forget the value of persistence, discipline, and determination.
You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.

Edmund O'Neill

I have no idea who Edmund O'Neill is but I really like the words above. I sent these to my daughter two years ago when she had just left College and begun University. I see that they are just as relevant to her today as she starts her second year of a three year degree and also to me and many other people I know. I also think that the path we start off on is not where we have to stay.

I think that it is great fun to just head off and see where you end up when you go for a drive or a walk in familiar surrounds. There should always be a certain awareness of safety but we certainly wouldn't be a global community if someone hadn't set off across the seas with no worry about safety. We wouldn't have put a man on the moon or sent people into space  at all. There are so many examples of people following their dream with no thought of failure  and they did succeed. There are also examples of people setting out and failing but did they have the faith and the preparedness that is required for unknown places?

I think that we as a whole are headed for unknown experiences, but with a little faith and a belief that we can deal with whatever the universe throws at us, then all will be well. If you think about it we are always headed for the unknown. Even the only two certainties in life, death and taxes, are unable to be forecast. We die when our time is due and we pay tax under instruction from government. So we have no say in what happens anyway and we all live with that with no great concern about it!

So get on with your dreams and day and enjoy it all. Life is short and we need to make the most of it. Take note of Mr. O'Neill. Have a good one.