Driving down the road at night, the lanes before me were empty. The light turned red and I stopped and looked at the beams from the streetlamps glistening down. I sang along to the radio, I slumped onto my steering wheel and I checked my phone. All in good time. Me and one other loner lazily accelerated as the light turned green, no hurry in the solitude. I glanced at my rear view mirror and my eyes widened in shock: headlights behind me as far as I could see. Suddenly all eyes were on me and I was setting the pace. It got me to thinking. Sometimes you think you're blazing a trail alone: that you're taking the path less traveled. Sometimes you don’t realize that you're leading the way for hundreds of others. That as you step forward into the unknown to do things never done before you are paving the way for many who have been waiting for someone to follow-- who needed someone to take the first step. When you feel alone in the path you're making for yourself, realize that your individuality gives others the courage to be an individual as well. Some people don’t know what they can do till someone else does it first. Some people are, many people are, capable but need someone to go the way first and to find confirmation in that bravery. Don’t be afraid to step out in faith alone. You’re not really alone because many will follow. Bravery alone only seems that way at first. Many are following.
7/14/11
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