When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name;—— the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can you remember a moment in your life when you had life in yourself and it was wholly strange and new? Can you remember the moment when you stopped walking a path of someone else, and started cutting your own?
Write about that moment. And if you haven’t experienced it yet, let the miracle play out in your mind’s eye and write about that moment in your future.
I have never thought I was walking the path of someone else but I guess as we are growing up we are doing a lot of what our parents would have us do. That being said I guess when I was graduating from W&J and was trying to decide whether to get married or go to graduate school was when I finally made a big decision and started supporting myself and doing what I thought was best for me. Since then I have graduated, moved from PA to MD, and started my career. I sometimes stop and think about what my life would be like if I never left AZ, or went to grad school, or went back home after finishing my degrees. You always wonder if there is something better but for now I am happy and working hard.
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