The Path You Don’t Give Up On
I was recently on a hike when the person I was hiking with asked me, “Which path do you think is the best one?” Without any thought, I answered, “Whatever one gets us out.”
We both laughed and kept walking, but the comment stayed with me. The longer I thought about it, the more I realized how much that statement applies to life.
We spend a lot of time looking for the right path in life. The right decision. The right opportunity. The right next step.
But life rarely comes with a map. We can’t see around the next corner, and we don’t know exactly where a choice will lead.
What I’ve learned is that the best path is often not the one that looks the easiest or the clearest; it's not always the path that feels right in the moment.
A winding path that you continue walking will take you much farther than a perfect path you never start. When I look back on my own life, I can see countless moments where I had no idea where my trail would lead and many moments of feeling I was on the wrong path.
Starting this practice. Leaving my marriage. Building a charity. Studying sex therapy and opening talking about sex.
There were so many moments of doubt, fear, setbacks and days when I wondered if I was on the wrong path entirely. But I kept going. Life has a way of revealing the trail one step at a time.
You don’t need to see the whole journey; the wrong path can swerve into the right one over time. You just need to keep moving. Because the best path is rarely the easiest one, the shortest one, or the clearest one. The best path is the one you don’t give up on.