Mapped-out Life
If you’re unhappy with your route—
dissatisfied and full of doubt—
then you might be second-guessing,
looking for your parents’ blessing,
wanting to please everyone,
putting duty before fun,
overlooking the main one
and therefore satisfying none.
You are the one to satisfy,
to be led by and to gratify.
The principles by which you’ll bide
must be the ones you find inside.
So if you make a faulty choice,
at least it’s due to your own voice
and easier to rectify
than if you’ve chosen to rely
on rules laid down by another:
boss or lover, dad or mother.
So when you step out on that road
that takes you to your life’s abode,
be sure that that first step you take
is one you’ve chosen you should make,
led perhaps by older, wiser
family member or advisor,
but nonetheless, just right for you—
what you cannot help but do.
For when you’re older, you’ll figure out
that’s what life is all about.
The prompt today was “doubt.”
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
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I just ran for the hills. Sometimes, that’s as good as you can do 😀
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Me, too. The hills of Australia, then Africa, then CA, then Mexico..I like being the foreigner. Yes, CA was a foreign country as well.
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Nice one
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Thanks, Train!!!
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how cleverly you express the truth! I love this one especially!
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Thanks, Rabbit. Sometimes it just feels like I’m spouting the obvious, but at least it rhymes!!
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My new favorite..
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