Thinking Too Much
The least significant, off-the-cuff, throwaway comments can set off a wild chain of thoughts, if you let them. It’s happened to me twice tonight.
To a degree, this can be a good thing. “The unexamined life is not worth living,” after all. To take a moment, step back, and examine our actions can help us reevaluate our goals and whether our current course will lead us to them. The next step, though, must always be to move back into action. The driver who pulls off to the side of the road to check his map must eventually put it back in the glove box and return to the road. Perpetual self-examination leads only to perpetual non-motion.
For too long I’ve been stuck in the mental phase – the brainstorming, goal-setting, course-plotting mindset. Now I want to drop myself into gear and move forward. I want to leave this place of safety and security and press out into the wilderness, towards the dreams I have glimpsed on the horizon.
Will you come with me? Will you help me make a path through the wild and the dark unknown?
Adventure is calling.