Driven

 I can’t know what drives others, but I’d better know what drives me. Compassion or indifference? Courage or fear? Openness or a closed mind? Justice or punishment? Humility or pompousness? Abiding joy or temporary highs? Sobriety or caving to the cravings?

I’ll be honest - I swing back and forth. I know the person I want to be, and that gives me purpose. That knowing can show me the way away from the person-I-was to the free soul that I am.

I have the opportunity daily to choose my path. Will it be the well-trod path of easiest, fastest, who has the most, or will I choose, like enlightened souls throughout time, to take the ‘road less travelled’? Fortunately, that less travelled road is still a path made by those who desired a different way to serenity. They left giant footprints, way stations, and enough light to move steadily forward. All I need is willingness and action. As I willingly let go of my old ideas, I am given insight into new ideals, and the assurance that these are, in fact, available to me.

I no longer want to be driven by the selfishness and fears of not enough which used to define me. I am “a Child of the Universe; no less than the tress and the stars”. We all are. And we all get to choose what drives us. I choose gratitude for This Moment.