A Life is a Possibility

A life is a possibility, my guru would say. It is just a possibility. One possibility out of infinite other possibilities. Each of us has a journey, a personal journey consisting of millions of streets, avenues, and byways. Each street, avenue, and byway comes in contact with millions of other similar and dissimilar streets, avenues, and byways, creating an intricate web, a web that is infinitely more complex than that of a spider.

We all have a story to tell. We meet each other to add to our individual story and to augment to the collective story. We all have our own roads to follow, creating the chaos and the stability of our universe. As we intersect each other’s lives, we attract, repel, compel, inspire, coerce the other. In short, we are influenced by each other. We are separate and together. The difficulty lies in staying on our particular path in the midst of all the others. The intersections are wide and many, the byways running perpendicular and diagonal and parallel to ours are innumerable. The distractions are many. The focus is scattered. The visibility is low. And the need is high.

We listen to them all, we learn from them all, we join some of them, we run from the others, all the while staying with the only game available in the great big labyrinth, keeping track of our own yellow brick road. And that is but a challenge.