In a few days' time, I can not say 'I don't know' no more. For in a few days' time, everything would present itself properly and orderly in front of me, and everything will be clear.
It will be clear, also, that it is the time to choose.
So it isn't so metaphorical after all, when they say "you are at the crossroads of your life", for you really are at one. The more fortunate and the more elite may find themselves in a big junction with even more paths to choose from. It's a blessing, most would say, for now doors are flung open, welcoming you with big and warm arms. And all you've gotta do, is pick one. So much better than the less fortunate, where there's only one road offered ahead, and the course of their lives are pretty much calculated for.
Yet, to make a choice out of the choices available, isn't an easy one. More not so, when your future and consequently, your life, is at stake. To take a path and forgo the rest - yet which path warrants your future?
I am standing at a T junction, with two paths to choose from. It is a turn I must make, but it is either a left, or a right turn this time. Both routes are opposites of each other, with nothing in common.
One of them would very much be a more familiar path, for I have walked similar path with more confidence in the past. But could this familiarity breed contempt, that is the question. Could it be the case that, after choosing this path, I end up feeling sick of the familiarity it offers?
The other would be a path I have never ventured, yet offers much that appeal to my interest. This is a path many have taken before me, and many even emerged iconic eventually. This path has much to promise, yet to really realize these promises, one has to outshine his companions. In short, the path brings with it stiff competitions - much of an elitist nature.
Both are equally appealling, though one may promise more than the other. Yet both have equal detriments, manifested in different mediums and appear in different forms. Which turn am I to make, when I'm standing right in the middle of this T junction now?
See? For those whose future is more or less calculated for, they can now shake their legs and enjoy life like never before, while those who are standing at the crossroads are killing their brain cells contemplating which course of life they are forgoing. It is a big decision, for the stakes are high. And for an extremely indecisive and easily-swayed individual like me, it is an even more enormous task, because for one, I certainly am not going to gamble away the rest of my life, and for two, I haven't decided on which the lesser between the two evils is.
So, turn left? Or turn right?
