Dree yer Weird

[tealin]

A former church choir leader once said this in my presence* and it's been lodged in a corner of my brain ever since. I'm going to horribly mangle it in my attempt to remember her words, but it goes something like this:

Everyone has a path set out for them. You'll always be presented with choices, which will either keep you on that path or put you off it, and it's up to you to decide which to take. But if there's somewhere you're supposed to be, a certain path that you really ought to be on, and you make the wrong choice, it's been my experience that you'll be presented with the same choice over and over again until you pick the right one and get set back on track.

The trick is, of course, stepping back from your life, looking at the choices offered to you, and deducing from them what your intended path is. And, as Ronald Wright quotes the graffiti on the bathroom stall, 'Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up,' much like last-minute plane tickets the choices can get expensive in many different ways, but they have to be made...

*Not to me, specifically

Comments

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoyed the free musical concert of fire alarm drills.

That is an interesting theory. It has some elements of Father Andrew Greeley philosophy in there, though he uses it in his novels more in a different sense- not so much choices about a particular path to take but continuous opportunities in life to discover our better selves and we choose to accept or deny it (he refers to it as grace). He addressed some of this in his bittersweet science fiction novel "God Game" in which the main character gets to experience this, not as the one doing the choosing but as God.