Choosing to Decide
I had the wonderful experience yesterday of finding something I needed right under my nose. I was noodling around trying to come up with a visual for my new Option Method site – OptionForHappiness. As I often do, I grabbed the dog and we walked and walked in the park down the road. There’s a big field with a path round it that also leads to other paths. As we rounded it again and again, my mind was playing images of all the possibilities of what might work. Choice, choice in your own life, for your own happiness, I was thinking. The option to choose what you believe, to take the path you choose, etc., etc. My mind flipped through all the possibilities of artists who could create something special, or photos I had seen here and there, but of what, I wasn’t sure. So many possibilities! As I often do when I’m walking, I stopped and reminded myself to look outward, enjoy the scenery - look at what is right in front of me: the gorgeous just-blooming trees, the bright green of the open field, the dogs, people, bikes, strollers, the fork in the road. Another fork in the road. Another fork with a big beautiful tree in bloom right in the middle. If the tree could talk, it might have said, “Um, excuse me, over here, over here.” And I finally actually saw it. And realized how perfect it would be. A fork in the road – a little trite – ok, probably very trite – but so beautiful and right there in front of me. And I realized it didn’t mean that was the best choice. I don’t always have to, or want to, choose what is right in front of me, but I love how so often we find our answers so effortlessly. How in a world rich with information, images, posssibilities, we use our bodies and our senses and our amazing minds to zero in on what we love. To decide.
To choose. To move on down the road.
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