Note to Myself # 15

There's a saying that

if you don't know where you're going,

any road will get you there.

The current norm in American society

is based on plans and goals

and incremental steps toward those goals

(which mostly deal with career advancement

and the accumulation of material things).

God forbid you should just drift along, 

waiting to see where the current takes you.

Working toward goals is fine,

but you can't control serendipity 

or ignore those unplanned opportunities.

Well, you can. . . 

but it's probably a mistake.

Sometimes the best scenery

is on a blue highway.

And, looking back, it seems to me

that everything I did

led me to the logical next step 

without a whole lot of planning agony.

It all kind of hung together

as if there was some grand master plan

for me to discover.

Maybe it's true

that if we follow our path,

the next step will appear.