Course Correction

Life is all about course correction. Because, yes, "the journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step." But... the thing is, that a whole lot of personal blunders and just plain misdirection can (and usually does) happen along the way, you know. People get sidetracked. People get lost. People get buried, quite literally, half way there, and never manage to make it to "the Promised Land."

Some, sadly, never even make it out of childhood - or even more tragically, out of their mother's womb. Some... well, many in fact, start off their journey on the wrong foot, or just end up being misled by others (peers, parents, society, religion, lack of religion, you name it), so that they just plain lose their way, and go off in all the wrong directions. Often repeatedly. Heck! Most of us come into this world completely unprepared to begin with. And that's just a fact. So Life is really all about course correction.

But some days are overcast, or just plagued with what seems like endless stretches of foul weather, and even the Heavens above sometimes seem to be falling far too short of their sacred duty to light the way. So a lot of us just get lost, because it's all too easy to just get tired, overwhelmed, sick AND tired, or... just plain give up and give in.

And some... well, many just aren't very good at reading the signs and portents. Still worse, some folks simply do not listen when they are told, "Hey, buddy! I wouldn't go in that direction, if I were you." Because we all have Free Will, you see. Or, we're supposed to.

Yes sir, Life is all about course correction. Because even the mightiest sailing ships are but an infinitesimal spec of man-made dust tossed like a tempest in seas and oceans so mighty that most of us can barely wrap our little human minds around the vastness of it all. So, without that periodic course correction, anyone - rich, poor, young, old, great, or small - can end up all smashed up on jagged, barren rocks out in the middle of nowhere, on some godforsaken distant shore. And that is just the end of that little journey of a thousand steps. No do overs. No going back. No second chances.