I think you’re right. It’s all about the trade-offs and the path.

The question is, are you looking for a Path, or a Google Map?

Don’t worry about Picking a path, just take the one you are on, and figure out if it works for today and tomorrow. Nail down the trade-offs you are making by each step forward. If those trade offs are not worth it, start looking for the next branch. When you get to that branch, take a hard look at its trade-offs.

Larking off on the next fork is no better than doggedly rejecting alternatives to your current direction.

Very few of us are graced with the ability to define our destinies, but all of us have the option to recognize and value the trade-offs we make each and every day. If we view our trade-offs as things that are forced upon us by an uncaring universe and we will never have the ability to mitigate or choose how we perceive, than we doom ourselves to the slavery of our self inflicted ruts.

In recognizing the trade-offs and valuing them as something we acknowledge, and will take steps to mitigate if we choose they warrant it as appropriate, we gain the ability to shape our own course. It is all in the small steps forward.

There’s a bunch of things I CAN do, or that I would LIKE to do.

I just can’t shake the feeling that if I don’t narrow this down, I’m going to waste a lot of time looking.

Plus, tearing off on some existential snipe hunt doesn’t get my mortgage paid.

I know there’s no guarantees in life, but I’d at least like a hint.