I need this in my head!

Often in life, you might take a wrong turn, but at the time, you may not be aware that it IS a wrong turn. So you’ll coast along for a while, thinking that the scenery looks a bit different to what you expected, but that things seem okay. It may take ages, but suddenly you might come up against an immoveable boulder on the path, one that you can’t climb over or go around. Or the road you are on ends at a cliff with the equivalent of the Grand Canyon beyond. This is the moment of truth, when you realize not only that you took a wrong turn, but that you’re going to have to retrace your steps. You may feel so very far from your destination that you despair, and you just can’t believe that you wasted your time, how stupid of you, etc. DON’T DESPAIR! Don’t give yourself a hard time either. If you think back and look really hard, there will have been something positive (maybe many things!) that came out of your little detour. It doesn’t matter that you made a side journey: it was just that – a side journey – and it won’t necessarily prevent you from reaching your true destination. It just means that you weren’t concentrating, or you need to be more ‘on it’ if you really want to get where you’re going. Time passes and so does the moment. Soon you’ll be back on the right path. Reality checks in at different times with different hats on. The view from the top is always changing and rarely, if ever, replicates itself. Getting anything that’s worthwhile is always full of wrong turns, dead ends, and sometimes dark despair. But that serves to make it all the sweeter when you finally arrive. The source