Each time you get into the car you have to decide which road to take. Some will lead you to your destination, others won’t. You may unexpectedly find a road closed and have to change direction. You may take a detour or two and if you are anything like me, you may take a wrong turn too many and wind up further from your destination than when you started.
Life is no different. Each day we are faced with choices. Some of those choices will ultimately lead us to our destination and some of them will lead you away from that path. We don’t always know where to go. We may try one road and find that it was the wrong one. We may try a few more roads and find out none of them were the one we wanted. The trick is finding your way back to where you want to be.
I never in a million years pictured my life where it is today. Being a divorced single mom was not in the plans, but after taking a few wrong turns it is where my path lead me. Sometimes things happen that are out of our control. Sometimes the car breaks down and you reach your destination a little later than you had planned. The important thing is that you fix it and start chugging along again.
I’ve taken my fair share of wrong turns, but each of those turns lead me to where I was supposed to be at that time. Ultimately I made the decisions that got me there, but there were lessons that I had to learn to get to where I needed to be. Getting back on the path that I wanted wasn’t easy, but I am closer today than I was yesterday and that is what matters.