July 16 | Choosing the Course

If you were to consult the history that presently lives in your own memories, you can probably find interactions with these two very different figures.

The first is the kid who forever has a new plan—a new dream, a new career, a new life goal, a new way they’re going to make it. They’re a never ending well of optimism to anyone who will listen, speaking in broad, sweeping turns about a romantic future, born anew almost weekly.

The second is the old codger who refuses anything remotely new. They’re way of doing things has gotten them here, and nothing is going to change their way of doing thing until father time himself forces them to clock out once and for all. 

If both these figures live in our minds—if not in our actual memories of interactions, then at least in our imaginations—we might take them, for today, as two extremes we find ourselves living between. The first, choosing the course, the second, staying the course.

The question becomes this: if you were to be guilty of doing one more than the other, which would it be? Do you need to open your horizons? Or perhaps, just for now, close them down ever so slightly?… Read the rest