- Madhavi Gavini
- Brentwood, TN
- United States
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Have you created your own path?
Creating a path by "stepping out into the unknown" as opposed to following a path that is well-trodden,"comfortable and familiar" is challenging. Kindly share your experiences and the journey of your venture.
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Colleen Steen 500+
He says it much better than I can....
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Madhavi Gavini
Thanks!
Colleen Steen 500+
You ask, in your introduction....."Kindly share your experiences and the journey of your venture."
There is not enough room here my friend, and the poem says it all:>)
Madhavi Gavini
Colleen Steen 500+
Contributing is much more pleasurable than the alternative:>)
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
There are principles that govern human growth and happiness. These natural laws are woven into the fabric of every civilised society throughout history and are the foundation or root of every individual, family and institution that has endured and prospered.
This is a path that I've found, this is a path that I tread.
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
Madhavi Gavini
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
More than anything a path is constantly designed and redesigned for the individual by the individual
Hence why I feel my revision was efficient. Life is not static. It's always being worked on.
How much work you do on life is how much you think about and act on your path.
I think this is where the line between happiness and dismay exist. Knowledge and ignorance. Are a fuzzy issue. They seem to always end up there... These "lines" - the difference between calling it one thing or the other... What do we really know except we want a path?
Your answer shows contempt. Trying, effort. That's the main battle. The rest is application.
As for my self. I focus on surviving in this constantly changing world with major goals and personal desires for a large path or to be on many paths. A path is a subjective idea, what is a path and how to live with that definition/conception and for/with the idea.
A path is a paradoxical issue.. What is a path? Do you walk what you preach?
I question every step on my journey in life. Whatever a path is. I know constant inquiry is essential to walk it entirely and with content. Life long philosopher; teacher and student.
Be realistic than a positivist, not vice versa
Madhavi Gavini
"Your question is innately static/solid in nature."
My question is based on inspiration derived from the related talks.
and the intent was to gain insight into others' experiences. The related talks might help you understand my question.
"Your answer shows contempt. Trying, effort. "
It was not my intent. I am reticent ,as it is a work in progress.
"What is a path?"
'A path' in the context of one's vocation.
"Do you walk what you preach? "
Yes.
"Be realistic than a positivist, not vice versa."
I usually prefer to be a pragmatist and a positivist than a realist.
Thank you for sharing your ideas.
Colleen Steen 500+
I do not agree that Madhavi's "answer shows contempt". It looks like honesty to me:>)
That being said, I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of your insightful comment. As individuals, we can constantly design and redesign our path, we have the ability to take many different paths, and a "path" may be very subjective....always changing. I also agree that "constant inquiry is not only essential, and in my perception, fun and interesting as well.
Did you ever hear..." life is what happens when we're making other plans".......LOL:>)
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
Kate Blake 50+
How difficult for you was that? Or do your have family support? Please share some of your experiences?
Madhavi Gavini
My family is very supportive and encouraging. I did have my own share of challenges and I have grown with each one of them.
Random Chance 30+
Many I made I guess.
Each and every one has been a dead-end and now I am very close to the last dead-end.
Kate Blake 50+
Madhavi Gavini
All the best.
Gail . 50+
There is a saying using flying as an example. If you want to change the altitude, you have to change the attitude. EXPECT TURBULENCE. I surely did find turbulence!
As I faced life, not willing to continue to make the same choices (because if I do what I have always done, I'll simply create what I have always created), I found myself without a foundation. All of my understandings were suspect and many of them were then suddenly seen as irrational. (Fearful time) I needed a new worldview.
Some people do fine just letting go and walking another path. Not me! I craved understanding. I began educating myself about as much as I could and in as much depth as I could grasp. Eventually, I had a worldview that made sense, and then the walk became very easy indeed. (by comparison)
To take the road less traveled, one has to accept total responsibility for one's choices. That's not part of the culture that I came from. But I learned about self-honesty and its importance. I learned that the truth really does set you free.
To choose a different life, one has to be willing to give up ALL that is warm and familiar. That doesn't mean that ALL will be gone, but it might be. It WILL change. Relationships WILL change. Until self-honesty was developed, I was unable to see how much of that which was warm and familiar were the very things that I'd been using to create the prison that trapped me in a life I now understand was wretched by comparison to today.
Today, I am different. I like who I am. I'm no longer owned by ego. I own my consequences. Though fears still haunt me from time to time, I now know how to walk through them because I know they're irrational.
2da, I feel isolated on occasion. but I prefer that to the crowded prison I once inhabited. I'm certainly not lonely
I also know that the journey never ends.
Madhavi Gavini
Mathew Naismith 10+
We have all created our own unique path no matter how simular it might seem to others however I do know what you mean like stepping out from a cultural path onto another cultural path or thinking & doing things out of the norm. No matter what we do no one on this Earth has, is or ever will tread the exact path as you & I which makes everybody’s life special & unique.
As for myself I would say I have trod on a very unique path with my spiritual & scientific concepts which has isolated me from main stream society at times.
Love
Mathew
Madhavi Gavini
Thank you for your insight!
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Kate Blake 50+
Fritzie Reisner 100+
I raised the point I did in response to Madhavi's question because I think people sometimes forget that we ALL create or follow unique paths. Everyone's journey is different.
Kate Blake 50+
You are absolutely right Everyone's journey is different - what a boring old world it would be if that were not the case.
Kate Blake 50+
I sincerely believe that every challenge that life offers us is another opportunity to strengthen our own character, and that by knowing ourselves on a much deeper level we come to understand that we are just one large family. By not having my own children this has enabled me to be a close 'aunty' to so many more - and what a privildge that has been!