Forward motion is not progress if you are facing the wrong direction.
I spent many years in and around Atlanta, GA. I learned to drive there. As you may know, driving in Atlanta can be an adventure, even for good drivers, but when you’re a teenage guy, its like juggling snow globes full of hornets – its only a matter of time before something gets smashed and someone gets stung. I was involved in a few fender benders, had speeding tickets on a subscription, every three months like clockwork. But my “favorite” Atlanta roadways pastime was getting lost. In a city with more than two dozen roads with Peachtree in the name, this is not hard to do. I eventually learned a few basic tips that helped.
Not all Frontage Roads are connected.
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Just because you can get off the interstate here, doesn’t necessarily mean you can get back on.
You may be on highway 52 West, but still heading in an northerly direction, or southerly; east is also not out of the question.
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Getting onto the Interstate was always fun. Those blue signs with the cryptic arrows designed to keep you guessing about which lane you should be in were not helpful. I can’t count the number of trips that began with me driving for 20 minutes in the wrong direction.
Thankfully, we are now equipped with GPS on our phones. Also, I have a wife who is like a GPS who can read minds. She knows when I’m about to make a wrong turn, and course corrects before it happens. I rarely get directions wrong anymore. Almost never.
Forward motion is not progress if you are facing the wrong direction. We have to stop every now and then and evaluate our direction. Are we still aiming toward the destination we had in mind when we started this journey? Part of the problem here is that we don’t have the course of our life mapped out in front us. All those tricky navigational quirks can sneak up on us, coming out of nowhere – one way streets, dead end roads, construction (my favorite!). We can’t always plan ahead for these obstacles. We have to course correct constantly. And not all roads lead to someplace safe and reassuring.
So how do you keep your life on course? If you were going in the wrong direction, how would you figure it out? What are the sign posts you look for that let you know you’re heading in the right direction? What serves as your GPS for life?
