Excerpt

"...in life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they're doing. Then they find they're hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops.
Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.
...in the history of each plant lies the growth of the whole World."
Paul Coelho, Brida

This is why i love books so much. "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside of you" - Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It's about resonance, and provoking self-reflection while taking you away from the reality that you want to escape. Each reader can take what they want from the book and realize new things about themselves and grow. Literature is beautiful. When you don't focus so much and lose yourself in a truly great story, everything else becomes alright. I love it when reading engages your subconscious. It makes things more interesting.

~the bigger picture~

The Road

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

by Robert Frost

Every step we take is a step on the road least traveled because all our journey's are unique though we all head in the same direction. Paths cross and diverge yet we all forge ahead on our own roads and hope that at the ultimate end of our lives we meet again. Every step we've taken determine the steps we take in the present and future. Everything happens for a reason...I hope ;)

I look forward to every blue and starry sky and cloudless climes to come, including the potholes. =p and to the roads that I chose not to turn into or tread..well.. no regrets. What you don't know can't hurt you.. lol

One must trust in each person's ability and their own to find their own way. Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.