Is necessary for any real personal growth, maturity, or progress.
It can get quite comfortable on this road. Between these lines. Trusting these guardrails. But anyone who has driven long distances—or even short distances on a familiar highway—can tell you that such security can lull you into a trance. You snap too a few minutes later surprised at where you are now. No visual memory of having come so far. No recollection of the sights you passed.
And there’s that moment of panic. When the thought of what might have happened because you weren’t quite paying close enough attention chills you from the inside out.
Listen to that moment of panic in your life. That shot of adrenaline is meant to wake you up. To remind you that trusting blindly in the path you’re on may just be a temporary coma caused by the status quo.
It may just be time for a little off-road exploration. Maybe not to completely alter your destination, but to simply take a more unexpected, creative, and wild way of getting there.
