Choose

I'm joining in on Lisa-Jo baker's 'Five Minute Friday'.
The rules are pretty simple. One word. Five minutes of writing. No editing.

Chooses aren't always black and white. We try to make them that way but in reality, in real life, they just aren't.  Life is a journey and sometimes on that journey you come to a crossroad. The crossroad isn't like in the Disney movies either. One direction is a beautiful spring day, green grass and flowers blooming and birds chirping. The other direction is black and thunderstom-ish, with weeds and crows cawing. In real life crossroads sometimes look the same in both directions, a mirror of itself. When that happens you do the 'what if game', "I went this way but what if I would have gone that way". Sometimes there is one little difference from the get go that makes you think "A ha! This is the obvious way". Only to find out that no, it wasn't.

Sometimes there is a mountain of an obstacle in the way in one direction and the other is a clear path. Generally, for me, I have to climb over some obstacles before I get to the smooth path. Even when I get to that smooth path, there will be little pebbles thrown my way. The pebbles make me question what I have done, maybe I should turn around, I thought I had the worst part over. I look at those pebbles now as a reminder. Look at what I have been through to see this obstacle as a mere pebble. That to me is a reassurance that I've been given the right path.
 
It's not a snap of the finger, "This is the way". Prayer, thought, consideration go into my chooses. My husband had a very smart friend tell him "Hard right over an easy wrong". Sometimes just sometimes those are the words that you have to keep in mind, even when you really don't want to.