I got some amazing comments back on the ‘search to zenployment’, highlighting the value of choosing the path less trodden.
For Emma Bird from How to Italy the path less trodden had taken her to a:
More relaxed lifestyle, more freedom, doing a job that I love and growing and learning new things every day.
(And if you follow her blog you’ll know she truly does have a great lifestyle – and approach to life.)
Margaret Ntifo wrote that she was glad she’d had the courage to take the path less trodden, adding some inspiring words about the power we have to shape our destinies:
‘I always say “the best way to predict the future is to invent it”. We truly ARE the authors of our own life, or should I say we have been given the power to author our lives, if only we will recognise that power, and use it.’
I often find myself thinking about the paths that we follow (as a metaphor) when I am out walking in wild places. Paths that are easy, straight, well maintained but maybe less challenging. Paths that take us out of
our comfort zone but create a huge sense of satisfaction and achievement. Paths that take us to new and unexplored places. I’d have to admit though that the hardest part of a long walk, for me, is when I can’t see the way ahead at all. When the path peters out and you stop, looking about you, wondering which is the ‘right’ way to go.
But what never ceases to amaze me is that you always do find a path. Perhaps your eye leads you beyond the boulders to the line of the shore beyond. Perhaps it’s no more than a sheep track to follow.
Perhaps, as happened to me recently, it’s looking up and seeing the path through the grass marked just by a darker shade of green, and a rich pattern of daisies, marking out the way.
Path to the coral beaches, Dunvegan, Skye