A Debate

“It’s a shame when things don’t work out the way that you had envisioned them. When you can look at your life and everything that you see there is unintended. Perhaps you got distracted at some point and failed to realize that all those things that you had been working toward were slipping farther and farther away. Possibly, some bright new prospect caught your eye. And, although you knew that to pursue this attraction would mean losing ground on your true journey, you went toward it. It doesn’t really matter how you got here. Here you are.”

“It’s a grand thing when life furnishes you with surprises. When you look at your life and everything that you see there is unintended. When you can hold in your mind the malleability to adapt and take advantage of each situation that you encounter. When you can exhibit the courage to take hold of bright new prospects and pursue them, heedless of the losses you are sure to incur. You know that the journey is truth itself. It doesn’t matter where you go. Only how you get there.”