When we have little to no options, we sometimes wished that we had more options. We hope that we will be able to choose the right one when we have many options.
The curious thing is that we can never fully tell if we made the right choice at the time of making the perceived right choice.
Standing between crossroads, we often experience an epiphany and symphonic flavour of time in which the future and the past are somehow superimposed into the present.
With the life I've lived so far, I've been at a few crossroads and I frankly didn't do well in taking the right direction at one of them.
But thank the powers that be for their intervention because things would've turn quite fatal if they didn't intervene.
That's the wild card of life, it only takes a cosmic nod to shuffle everything altogether and bring in something entirely different.
Is There Really A Right Direction?
Introspection
I think at the basic level, the answer is a definitive yes. But there are elements of it that are usually not very clear especially in the beginning. Because on the surface level, right is a bit dynamic like the waves in the sea.
This is why after we've taken the path, we may move into a meander on the path and feel like we're going the wrong direction only to reach another meander and feel like we're going the right way. I think the reality is that it is all part of the journey.
We will necessarily not always feel like we're going the right way, even though we may have chosen the right direction. For me, the best way to discover the right direction when standing between crossroads is introspection.
Blocking out all the noise, going to the inner depths and just listen. Of course, it is a different language in this inner environment. Words are unnecessary.
Everything is known in a packed format as in a seed with no conscious logical explanation. No why, how or what.
The peculiar thing is that we reserve the right to accept or discard this inner knowing.
To a certain extent, it is the cause of believe in free will. No doubt that we will be influenced by a bunch of things.
However, making the decision rests on us. The trick is that these bunch of things work on making us make the decision unconsciously.
Truly, it's a bit of a task to reconcile all these aspects of our being.
Retrospection
A right direction will mean that there is a wrong direction on the other side of the spectrum. In a world of polarity, both of them are delineated with a clear line.
I see a wrong direction as going towards a path that doesn't fundamentally align with our self.
If we miss the memo of the inner knowing from Introspection. Then much later it will be clear to us with retrospection when we look back at the journey.
By then it probably would've been a bit too late to modify course but this is no cause for regret.
Because at a higher level, both right and wrong are relative.
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