The Road to success...

…is under construction

The road to success is temporarily blocked and unless you go and find another way, you’ll never get pass. Success is a road that is always under construction. Delays are normal and road bumps are to be expected.

You can’t blame anybody for the delay though, or for the potholes along the way. The road has only one maintenance man, one care taker, one engineer: YOU. It’s a highway that is unique in itself. It is the only road in the world where you are not allowed to just sit and wait for other people to cover the potholes for you or put asphalts in the pavement. You have to do it your way or you suffer. There is no other way.

Success is a long road; a long winding, scary, bumpy, adventurous, challenging, and rough road full of twists and turns. You never know what lies ahead. The biggest troubles and surprises lies in this road. The views are far from scenic and are often boring that very seldom chooses this road though a lot would want to travel it.

A lot of people would try to find the shortest route towards their goal; a shortcut, the easiest way to reach the pedestal. But very few realize that the real road to success has no shortcuts. If you really want to reach the zenith you have to travel the long winding road. And this is the only surest and proven way to succeed.

Like normal roads, road blocks are also common. Sometimes these blocks are so huge that it takes time before you could get through it. Of course, sometimes detours are unavoidable. It lengthens your journey but it would surely get you there.

We all make our own roads. We are the ones who construct the highways of our lives. Every road we choose to travel paves the way to our destiny. We sometimes make a mistake and choose a path that leads us to nowhere or get lucky and choose the road less traveled. Whatever your decision is, the road you choose directs you to the kind of life you are going to live.

Crossroads, intersections, road blocks, all these are parts of the journey. Whichever of these we encounter, we all have to make the same decisions and given the same questions. Which road will you take? We decide with one thought, or perhaps without even thinking at all, it is a decision that could change our lives.

It is a very hard decision indeed. We have to choose with very limited option knowing that choosing the wrong way could make or break our dreams. On the lighter side, choosing the wrong way could also lead us to another way that is more exciting and self-fulfilling than the other way. Mistakes teach us to become better persons anyway. What matters is we learn from it and avoid it.

The road to success is long and hard but at the end of the journey is the end of the rainbow with the pot of gold, or, it could also be a pot of stone. One can never really be sure.