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On Looking Through Old Photographs
Looking through old and faded photographs which captured a still image of different times I wondered what would have happened if I had made different decisions in my life. There are many paths that we can take and we reach many cross roads. There are a constant series of choices that we must make and indeed there are so many roads that after a long period of time making these choices consciously, we no longer recognise them as choices, but as diversions which we ignore.
Some have warned us that the straight and narrow way leads us to the best destination and to be wary of the broad and wide road will take us to dangerous places.
But there are so many intersections and so many paths and each of them requires a decision which we are ill qualified to make; we enter into unknown territory without a map, perhaps relying on principles to guide our choices or perhaps relying on laziness and habit, to walk along the same kind of road upon which we have always trodden.
One thing is clear; whatever road we take we end in the same immediate destination, which is one from which return is impossible. Perhaps it is not question of reaching the best destination but reaching the destination sooner or later. That means that the point of the journey is not to reach the end of it, but to experience the journey itself.
Filed under: climate change Tagged: dangerous places, death, journey of life, philosophy, straight and narrow way 
2012-12-06 08:51:50
Source: http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/on-looking-through-old-photographs/
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