I will not be manipulated into someone else's box. What is there in this world for me? The opportunities are endless some say. I disagree with this statement. Opportunities are endless just like the path of a leaf on the wind is endless. The leaf does not have much of a choices where it will go. It is true that the wind could potentially take it anywhere, but once a leaf is in the air it is completely helpless to direct its path. The wind is not the only entity affecting the leaf; an outside force such as a bird or a person can change its path, but still the leaf itself is helpless. Could the wind take the leaf anywhere? Yes, but it will not. The wind is predisposed to follow the path that is has begun. What does this mean for people? It means that people are unlikely to have endless paths. Every choice, forces them farther down the current.
Where is this current of life taking me? What will it take to change the directions that I see I am heading and into the current that will take me to where I want to go. To answer that, one would have to know where they want to go. So for now I am a leaf on the wind, being prodded down a path of my own creation and not of my own at the same time.
I am determined to become a bastion of strength. A tower that does not move with the wind. Who feels the wind and scoffs. One who sees the currents of life pass around him and when they touch him changes their direction.
One Day,
C. Fletcher
