The Road Less Traveled

[Nirvanadragones]

Have you ever seriously doubted the path you're on? Do you often contemplate where you would have been if you had made different decisions in your past? Different choices? If so, is it only regret, or sometimes also a feeling of knowing you took the right path?

How do you choose? What has been the reasons behind the motivations for your choices? What drives you in the direction you're going?

Have you ever turned around completely? Tracked back to where you were, and taken another road?

Do you take the easy way? Or the obstacle course? And at the end of your journey, will you have peace that the path you walked, was the one you had wanted to be on?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Have you ever seriously doubted the path you're on? Do you often contemplate where you would have been if you had made different decisions in your past? Different choices? If so, is it only regret, or sometimes also a feeling of knowing you took the right path?

How do you choose? What has been the reasons behind the motivations for your choices? What drives you in the direction you're going?

Have you ever turned around completely? Tracked back to where you were, and taken another road?

Do you take the easy way? Or the obstacle course? And at the end of your journey, will you have peace that the path you walked, was the one you had wanted to be on?

Mid-life career change? Yup. Easy way? Nope. But the right way? Yeah, this time I've got it and wonderful things are resulting therefrom. Why? Because this is what I was born for, even though I spent nearly 40 years avoiding it.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Is this a trick question?

 

[impressive]

Have you ever seriously doubted the path you're on? Do you often contemplate where you would have been if you had made different decisions in your past? Different choices? If so, is it only regret, or sometimes also a feeling of knowing you took the right path?

How do you choose? What has been the reasons behind the motivations for your choices? What drives you in the direction you're going?

Have you ever turned around completely? Tracked back to where you were, and taken another road?

Do you take the easy way? Or the obstacle course? And at the end of your journey, will you have peace that the path you walked, was the one you had wanted to be on?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Both.

Carefully. Selfishness. Fear (that I won't make a difference).

Yes. Yes.

No. The fulfilling course. Yes.

 

[Trombonus]

I often wonder if I made the right choice concerning my first girlfriend...

I know I handled our situation and the break up the wrong way, but that's not what I mean.

I suppose I'll always wonder what would have happened if we'd stayed together, and I'd married her like she wanted. As obsessed as she was with marriage, she was extremely good to me. I knew that she loved me completely. It makes me wonder if I'll ever find someone like that again. Now that I've been in a bad relationship I know what I had in her, and feel like a fool for letting her go. Now she's engaged, and I'm not anything. Even when I was with my second girlfriend (T), I was always think about my first (L). Sometimes I'd even wish T was L. Now that ship had forever sailed. People tell me that the right one will come along...but it's getting harder and harder to believe that. It doesn't help that I'm a total coward when it comes to cute girls.

Guess I'll just wait and see what happens once I start working. I feel the window of opportunity slowly closing on me though.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Have you ever seriously doubted the path you're on? Do you often contemplate where you would have been if you had made different decisions in your past? Different choices? If so, is it only regret, or sometimes also a feeling of knowing you took the right path?

How do you choose? What has been the reasons behind the motivations for your choices? What drives you in the direction you're going?

Have you ever turned around completely? Tracked back to where you were, and taken another road?

Do you take the easy way? Or the obstacle course? And at the end of your journey, will you have peace that the path you walked, was the one you had wanted to be on?

I'm kind of in that position now. I quit full-time work a year ago to go back to school full time, and now, with financial problems getting worse and worse, I find myself thinking I might go back to work full time and just take classes at night again. I'm not sure what to do. Usually my choices are made by necessity- I can't do anything else. It's almost at that point now, but I hate to give up another year further away from getting my degree; I'm already going to be pushing 40 when I get my master's. Shit. I don't know what to do. Anyone got any advice?

 

[rgraham666]

Have you ever seriously doubted the path you're on? Do you often contemplate where you would have been if you had made different decisions in your past? Different choices? If so, is it only regret, or sometimes also a feeling of knowing you took the right path?

My current one, no. I never contemplate the past wondering about the decisions I've made. The past is the past and I can't do a damned thing about it. I do sometimes doubt the path I'm on but I don't feel I have a lot of choice.

How do you choose? What has been the reasons behind the motivations for your choices? What drives you in the direction you're going?

The thing that drives me the most is my own autonomy. I strongly dislike being under other people's control, passing decisions that affect me to others, most especially others who aren't concerned with anything but themselves.

Have you ever turned around completely? Tracked back to where you were, and taken another road?

Not exactly. My life collapsed when I went insane so I did have to start over.

Do you take the easy way? Or the obstacle course? And at the end of your journey, will you have peace that the path you walked, was the one you had wanted to be on?

I take which ever way I believe is the wise thing for me to do. And the journey isn't over yet. It won't be until I die. Then others can judge it.

 

[3113]

Is this a trick question?

I think it is. She's trying to get you to admit you ought to have picked her when you had the chance, Stella. Why didn't you pick her? You fool!

 

[Liar]

Look uo "Path Of Least Resistance". You'll find an honorable mention of me. I don't make choices. I just do whatever is in front of me.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I'm working to change my course. I push and fight and cuss, and look at the goal ahead and sometimes smile, sometimes curse more, sometimes close my eyes and wonder why.

I spent far too long living what I thought was right only to have it bite me in the ass and leave me feeling empty and dry. Then I realized I am the guardian of my own wellspring. If I am dry I get my own water.

I am still mostly on the old path but more to the shoulder, and every step is further and further to the new.

I just wish I could walk faster.

 

[impressive]

Look uo "Path Of Least Resistance". You'll find an honorable mention of me. I don't make choices. I just do whatever is in front of me.

I'm familiar with the type.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'm familiar with the type.

I'm turning into the Pathfinder Irresistable, I guess. It's reached a point where I get my way nearly all the time. Odd feeling, that.

 

[Guest]

i really evaluate major decisions. i think through possible outcomes, look at things in different perspectives, and weigh my options before making the decision. i still might make the wrong decision, but at least its an "informed" one and i can feel confident with it, even if its wrong.

i try not to look back and wonder what might've happened if i had taken a different path. decisions i've made, right or wrong, all make me who i am today and where i am today. i've gone through bad times and relationships that i never want to repeat, but i've learned from them and they define a part of me.

sometimes i think i have to go down the wrong path in order to find the right path.

i admit, i've been faced with similar circumstances on major decisions a few times...and the 2nd time i chose a different path.

i usually know when i'm on the wrong path (like now). i'm just trying to figure out the best path to take from here, and soon, because this one is getting dark. i'm lucky to have a couple amazing friends to hold lights while i find my way out.

i'm not afraid of a challenge or working hard to achieve something. so taking the easy way out usually isn't in the cards for me. will i be at peace? i dunno. but when life has me down and i'm doing something that doesn't make me happy, i tend to start looking for a better path.

 

[damppanties]

Have you ever seriously doubted the path you're on? Do you often contemplate where you would have been if you had made different decisions in your past? Different choices? If so, is it only regret, or sometimes also a feeling of knowing you took the right path?

How do you choose? What has been the reasons behind the motivations for your choices? What drives you in the direction you're going?

Pondering.

Lately I've been thinking about those different paths I could have taken. I regret (is a strong word) not taking some opportunities, but in other ways, I'm lucky to be where I am now. There's something missing in my life now that could have been there if I had taken a different path, but I would not have what I have now -- which is quite a different thing. So it's not really a case of would I have been happier. I'm happy-ish now. I would just have had happiness as a result of different things if I had chosen differently back then.

I make decisions quickly. I know what I have to do. I make decisions using my head, rather than my heart, weighing stuff carefully, thinking about the consequences. Sometimes, I hurt people with my decisions, but as long as I know that's the best I can do in the circumstances, it's going to be done. I do the quick, clean cut.

The choice I'm thinking about nowadays was not really a choice as such, but an opportunity I didn't see. There was no active 'choice'. Which is what I mourn. I wish I could have seen it back then as I see it now. I knew I couldn't exactly have done any different back then, I just wish I had the capabilities/insight I have now back then, which is quite a stupid thing to wish for, but... *shrug*

Have you ever turned around completely? Tracked back to where you were, and taken another road?

No, in some ways. There's this one I'd like to try, but I know there's no chance of it anymore.

Career-wise, I have changed my field, so yes.

Do you take the easy way? Or the obstacle course? And at the end of your journey, will you have peace that the path you walked, was the one you had wanted to be on?

It's not about the easy way or the obstacle course. It's a careful weighing of the pros and cons, and then choose in a logical, rational fashion. Is either path ever either/ or? All of my choices have been about giving up something for achieving something else. There are difficulties and obstacles in both the choices..., rewards too.

And yes, in the end, I will know I've done the best I could. Would it be the path I would have 'wanted' to walk on? I don't know. It would probably be the one I could at the time in the particular circumstances, and felt I should, for me and people the decision affected.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

What a beautiful gift of answers to wake up to. Thank you for your replies. I love being allowed inside your minds for a moment.

 

[DeeZire]

I am confident that, by making the wrong choice, I avoided the stress of becoming a millionaire. I mean, don't they say millionaires are miserable?

Looking on the bright side, if I could sell regrets, I actually would be a millionaire.

 

[rachlou]

In my darkest moments, I look back over the last six years and think maybe I made the wrong choice - maybe if I had kept my mouth shut and just gone along as I had done for years, I wouldn't have wrecked so many lives. Then I think, no, I wouldn't have become the person I am today. A person I like far more than the person I was back then.

Things happen for a reason and we make choices that are right at the time. Life is too short for regrets and 'what ifs'. Look forward, not backward. If you continually look back, you will miss the wonderful things that might be right there ahead of you.

My heart tells me I'm on the right path and I look forward to the time when I have finally arrived at my chosen destination, with the person I want to be with.

 

[where]

.....

 

[neonlyte]

If it were easy to make decisions about which path to take... we'd all be happy... and where is the fun in that. Without emotional pain there is no measure of joy... only dead fish swim with the stream.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I've never been afraid to change a path mid-journey.

It has less to do with personal gain, than whether or not I'm going to be proud of the course I took in years to come.

Many of the most beautiful, easy roads have dead ends, or lead to dark and unexpected places. If I get a hint of that I'll sacrifice a few miles of pleasure for a road that really does lead to a beautiful place.

I've probably quit more jobs than most people my age have had.

Regrets? None. I decide who I want to be, and if I can't be that person on that particular path, then I'll move on to a different route, rather than following the path right off the edge of the cliff.

We control our own destinies.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I have no idea where I belong in life or what I should be doing with mine. I do feel like I have made a hell of a lot of bad decisions and that I am not where I should have been in the world. I don't know how to make things better though, because if I could have made the right decisions, if I knew what the right decisions were, I would have made them already.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

I took the first important, exciting, yet uneasy step today on one of my Roads Less Traveled. As of now, I am officially a first year student. (or, I will be as soon as registration has been successfully completed)

I enrolled today for a BA Hons degree in Creative Arts, specialising in Photography. I've always adored Photography. It's been my choice of visual artistic expression for as long as I can remember. If I'm good at it, is another question all together. I'll find out soon enough, though. But I have perseverance, and vision, and passion, and I can feel. And as with many other areas of my life, with the right motivation, I am willing and able to cultivate the skills necessary to do exactly what I want to do.

It's going to be an interesting 4 years

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

My whole life has been the road less traveled, I would say. It's been a constant shifting of perspectives, career paths, educational focuses, romantic entanglements.....Would I change or do it differently now? Absolutely not. I'm still having so much fun.

 

[damppanties]

I took the first important, exciting, yet uneasy step today on one of my Roads Less Traveled. As of now, I am officially a first year student. (or, I will be as soon as registration has been successfully completed)

I enrolled today for a BA Hons degree in Creative Arts, specialising in Photography. I've always adored Photography. It's been my choice of visual artistic expression for as long as I can remember. If I'm good at it, is another question all together. I'll find out soon enough, though. But I have perseverance, and vision, and passion, and I can feel. And as with many other areas of my life, with the right motivation, I am willing and able to cultivate the skills necessary to do exactly what I want to do.

It's going to be an interesting 4 years

I would love to do that. Someday, maybe.

Luck with yours.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I took the first important, exciting, yet uneasy step today on one of my Roads Less Traveled. As of now, I am officially a first year student. (or, I will be as soon as registration has been successfully completed)

I enrolled today for a BA Hons degree in Creative Arts, specialising in Photography. I've always adored Photography. It's been my choice of visual artistic expression for as long as I can remember. If I'm good at it, is another question all together. I'll find out soon enough, though. But I have perseverance, and vision, and passion, and I can feel. And as with many other areas of my life, with the right motivation, I am willing and able to cultivate the skills necessary to do exactly what I want to do.

It's going to be an interesting 4 years

I'm so proud of you Baby!!
I love how you capture images, you're going to be great!
I'm so excited for you!