"When you get to the crossroad in your life and you have a choice to make, always take the harder, scarier road. It is the one you were meant to take. If you were truly happy on the road you were traveling, as well as the direction your life was taking, a crossroad would never have appeared. The lessons you have to learn in your life will never be on the easy street, they will be on the road that challenges you. So take the hard road, draw a deep breath, and put yourself out there. You are stronger and braver than you think you are." Joanne McPike.
What struck me while reading this is the idea of a crossroad, NOT happening If you are truly walking your authentic path...and that if there is on, it will be the junction between what is your truth and what is not....between doing what others want and doing what you feel is right for you.
I love this.
And, I agree that the hardest road is the right one...and it is scary...to get off of someone else's idea of what is right for your life. To go against popular oppinion and do what feels right inside.
And, that if you are on easy street, you are not learning the lessons life has to offer.
The toughest road I traveled was littered with valuable life lessons.
In many families and churches, there are strong influences that appear to be a crossroad, a place where two ideas cross your path. Chosing the one that aligns with your passion and your desires, while going against the preferences of your parents...is the hard road.
Our individuality and authenticity is being on the road and not veering off when other's wishes are dropped in front of us.
Some of the hardest challenges to being yourself is to neglect what other's need...and serve your soul first.
I truly believe we can't help others while starving our souls.
