Life’s Awkward Journey

Looking  back down through the years it seems that I started as a tiny bud, tightly closed yet surrounded by protective petals …  like walls to keep me safe. I had been asleep!  One morning in the warmth of the suns rays … my petals opened one by one .  I awakened to my first day of being totally alone … in the real world … to make my own way.

The strength and beauty that were deep within, emerged, energized and exploded, as this great adventure into the unknown began.  This was all new to me.  It did not seem to matter how humble were my beginnings … what knowledge I would gain …how strong or frail I was.  Once awakened and forced to leave my sheltered life, the pathways that I found to follow led me down a “journey of discovery” that has blown the cobwebs from my mind.

In time I discovered that I exist for this.  I had no compass to guide me on this unknown journey.  I had no expectations of what wonders I might find or how scary it could be.  Like thistle down  … the breezes carried me to new discoveries and a world that could be construed … as upside down.  I found that it all depended on my point of view and that point of view …was all up to me.   Freedom of Choice. Free Agency.  What will my real life choices be?

With each uncertain step I took, I was challenged and rose to the challenge.  What else could I do? Choices were all around me and all those choices were mine.  What would the results be … good … bad … happy … sad?  I would soon see that Life was a mixed bag of Reality. It was a learning curve infringing on the paths I wished to travel. It was demanding and it was beautiful.

My Life was unexpected … challenging … and full of wonder.  There was a whole world out there that I knew nothing about.  As my paths wandered to places unknown with hills to climb and meadows gentle, I found at last “My own Rhythm.” I made my owns decisions and I learned from my own Mistakes. 

I uncovered someone that I might never have known and I Rejoiced in the person that I had found.  I could stand proud.  Life is an “Awkward Journey” not to be missed.