Imagine, you have advanced to college.  When you show up to sign up for classes, you can't even figure out whether you want to take classes to become a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, a politician etc.... You don't know what you want to be.  There is a guidance counselor who can help you, but ultimately, the decision is yours because you are the one who must travel the distance to get there.

 

knowing the strategy towards accomplishment of a goal or direction is a map.

 

You must know how to read through it to make it in life.

 

Because the map itself is a grid of all the places in life you could find yourself; there is a definitive direction, but knowing HOW to get there is what this is for.

 

The map of life offers a strategy on how to get there and all the roads that one must travel to get where they need or want to be in life.

 

All the twists and curves on the road are the things that you have to go through in order to be on the road that you want to be on to get there.

 

Imagine, someone sitting in their car, and they are reading a map.  In other words, they're trying to find their way in life.  and, instead of advancing forward, they fall behind.  They need to pull up of course, or they will have others taking that opportunity that is in front of them.

 

Do you understand this?

 

This simply describes the act of falling behind the distraction of not knowing how to find one's way....

 

It is a good strategy to read the map before one gets on the road.  Doing so, is preparation before setting out for the journey towards the goal.

 

Reading the map on the road, is ill-preparation because the mind is not focussed on the road, but how and where one currently is in life, and that does not account for the competition that is right along the same path.  These put one in a state of worry... All forms of questions run through the mind... "Did I miss my turn"... "Am I going in the right direction" etc..... symbolically speaking....

 

These distractions are not right for the journey.  Unless one is fully aware of where they are, what comes next, and how much further one need go....then glancing at the map on the road, in contrast, is just reassurance that one is definitely on the right path!!!

 

Well done!!!