Xanadu of path of life

By watedroplet

I still remember the days of my life when I wanted to write a perfect path of my life right in the beginning of my journey of life—I wanted to figure out everything before I began my trip. The truth is life doesn't operate on this theory. There is no perfect pathway, and no one has ever been able to write one perfect path as such. Life is a "mystery box of our choices." 

We all, in some way or the other, happen to be in the place of making choices—I remember when I had to choose between my favorite food and playing, and I chose to play; then when I had to make choices of subjects in my 11th standard, that ultimately made who I am now; the choice to begin a family, which decides what I will do thereafter: look after kids or choose my passion. 

So, in search of a path of life, the most integral part is played by our "choices." How do we make our choices? I remember choosing nursing, my first profession, because everyone in my family said, "You will have a paid job after training, and your life will be settled." My school's vice principal said, "You can give a chance to the competitive examination next year." The decision was tough. I wanted to give a try for competitive examinations, but they used to be tough, and being selected there was a matter of chance. I took a chance and tried various exams next year, but nothing worked out, so I was left to choose my first profession. 

The way of choices seems all set in my case, right? I did not get the first path, so I chose to walk in the next. If you see closely, my intuition or gut feeling was saying that you are not yet ready for other competitive examinations, so don't wait and waste time. Follow the path that is ahead; you'll reach somewhere. Yes, I did reach somewhere—a place where now I felt more confident and secure, both financially and in my personality and skills. 

This was the place that I could not have attained had I not gone into my first profession. Then when I was out of the first profession, I started searching for the next job. I tried a couple of opportunities. I cleared a few, but my heart was not at all willing to be there. Then I started to define the purpose of my life. I was not able to have a clear definition of it for my life. This was the toughest phase. So, I kept doing jobs to earn my living and, in the meantime, do my studies, which I really wanted to do. Earning a living was working for a while, but my studies were not working. 

I just allowed what was coming to me. What worked, I just kept doing. In due course, I met with many people. These people have taught me a lot of valuable lessons and gave me guidance to follow my intuition and gut feelings. 

I kept following my gut feelings and dropping those opportunities that my heart rejected. I finally completed my master's, which was one of my dreams that was not happening. This is another turning point to tell me what I want in my life. I turned that way, and I am still walking on it, happy and satisfied. 

So, why I chose to describe this section of my path of life was because it just mirrored what the author of Cashflow Quadrant painted about his life. He also had two professional qualifications, and his parents also asked him to join some secure jobs, but his heart just refused to land in another professional training center and another job that he would leave. As I was reading his story, I thought, I can paint mine also with the same brush. All those descriptions of his led me to revisit my own gut feelings and intuitions over time. It helped me to understand myself a little better. 

This is how I found my path of life and every other one finds, because everyone's path is unique and exclusively for them only and can be discovered by them only.

This post is a part of Blogchatter A2Z Challenge 2026 and backlink to www.theblogchatter.com 


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