I have a very cliche analogy about life, but it works if you think about it.
Everyone has their own individual pathway. While walking, you pass a lot of scenery, some you like, some you don't. Friends are those who's pathways converge with yours for a while. Although the pathways may converge, some friends may walk in front of you, while some may walk behind. Wisdom is the effort of calling on those friends to walk with you in your direction, while truth only arises when they catch your pace for a second.
I've heard before that love is another person walking with you in the same direction, and I believe that analogy is correct. However, you need to be walking in the same direction at the same time in order to find true love.
When friends stray, they have taken interest in different scenery than you, thus choosing to branch their path from yours.
Mmm I could go farther but I think you have the basic principle.
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The problem I have with this analogy is that it implies that since each person has their own individual path, that they in fact did not choose their own path, but their destiny was predetermined for them, which is an idea I do not agree with at all.
ReplyDeleteI think that a better analogy would be that we are all walking through a forest, with no clear idea of where we are going save what we see and we can really go anyplace we choose. Unless a tree is in the way.
Nowhere does it say that the individual did not choose their own path. I wasn't very specific.
ReplyDeleteFor a while, at least when we are younger, we tend to follow the paths of our elders and maybe our peers. As we grow older, we assume the responsibilities of clearing one for ourselves.
I do not believe in destiny either.