How To Know If You’re On The Right Path

The subtle art of walking through the right doors

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There is hardly a moment in my daily life when the thought isn’t creeping up on me from one direction or another. For many years I’ve been wondering about more or less the same thing: “Am I on the right path?”

I ask myself this question with an intrinsic ambivalence running through my response. My assumption is that I can do something to change my circumstances, if I wish. I’m ready to participate in the journey so long as it the right one for me; the nagging question is knowing if this path is also my path.

Confidence and optimism in finding the right path is not as clear-cut as it sounds. For there is a strange undertow that lurks beneath the surface when you feel that the true pathway is there to be found. Ambitions interlaced with notions of your own strengths and weaknesses, hopes, dreams and self-delusions: all these threads weave a rich but not altogether lucid tapestry.

So why then propose the idea of a true path at all?

The idea that there is a true path for each of us should, by rights, raise a suspicious eyebrow.

In our modern culture, atomized and individualized, we have become a population of increasingly solitary points in a network. Individualism has…