A light in the darkness

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 pai...

 Now, this is the right place- HOW TO FIND THE PATH OF LIFE? I still remember the day when I left my first job and was reflecting where should I go now? That made me to think the purpose of my life. During that time only I laded up on the book, "The purpose driven life" by Pastor Rick Warren. Since I was searching for purpose, this book seemed to be best solution. I wanted clear cut answers about how my life should be so that I could escape all the uncertain challanges that shakes my life like anything. In simple words, I want a peaceful settled life where my purpose was just one goal.  Yes, that book was quite helpful but it also did not give me a clear cut picture. I is something like how we make a sand house on a moist sand in the beach. We put our foot and pile up the sands and then we smoothen it with our slippers and then we slowly but carefully pull out our foot, the sand house still stands. The purpose of our life is also like that. We wish to create something out of ...