The many possible roads...

Growing up there were many times in which I knew the quickest way to get from one destination to another.  My father, at times, would not take the most direct route and when questioned about it he would reply, “There’s more than one way to get there…”  Any response to that would yield the same reply and it was almost as if that scene, played out time and time again, came out of a National Lampoon’s movie.  Obviously, his philosophy is true figuratively and literally, but I have always preferred a more direct approach.

                Everyday we are presented with side roads and various paths to each and every goal that we have.  A short list of goals that I have and possible roads to them:

1.       Start a family

a.       Date random people I meet

b.      Date people I know that I normally would not

c.       Go on “The Bachelor”

d.      Match.com/Eharmony.com/whatever

e.      Have friends set me up

2.       Single digit body fat percentage

a.       Go to the gym for everything

b.      Run daily

c.       Isometrics

d.      Intramural sports

3.       Own a house

a.       Save money

b.      Win lotto

c.       Marry a celebrity

d.      Move the boonies

4.       Make a career of music

a.       Practice my @$$ off

b.      Gig

c.       Sing on a street corner

d.      Distribute demo cds

Obviously, some of the “paths” are more lucrative than others.  Some are just outright silly and require nothing other than luck (e.g. lotto) and some require daily work to achieve.  Hopefully you realize that the point of the list above is not to say that I am doing all or even any of these things, but that they are examples.  There are many things on that list that I will not do, but all the same.

                The point is that I could sing on a street corner hoping for that “right place, right time” that some people come across, but I will not.  I could go on “The Bachelor” and hope that A. one of the women is actually attractive enough for my picky nature and B. she is not a heinous individual, but I am not that desperate yet.  I could move out to the boonies to afford a house, but unless the property includes a stream, lake, river, forest, or something other than desert or sweeping plains it is not happening.  There is more than one way to get there, but side roads just are not my thing until I have reached the initial destination (which sounds REALLY shady when put in the context of dating/marriage…WHOOPS!).  Any thing worth having is worth waiting for and anything worth waiting for is worth suffering, sacrificing, and working for be it physical, mental, emotional, or material.