Thursday, October 28, 2021

"Find New Roads"

I occasionally see a Chevy commercial that encourages the viewer to "Find New Roads," but, setting aside the obvious meaning of that we should go out and find roads that are new to us, this advice is practically impossible to follow. New roads aren't "found;" they're made. If we want to "find" a new road, we have to make it. Of course, this may also be also be what Chevy meant. Maybe they intend for us to be such trailblazers that we discover new ways of doing things, ways that are so good that other people start following our example. We are to find/discover new roads.

Whatever Chevy meant, doing almost anything of value will take a certain amount of effort on our part. Maybe that means blazing new trails and making new roads, or maybe it's best to keep following the old roads that still work just fine. Maybe you'll need to repair some roads or search through hundreds of known, existing roads until you find the ones that will take you where you want to go. We're all going down roads in life, whether we're blazing new trails or following other peoples'. What's really important is to decide where we're going in life, figure out how to get there from where we are now, and find, make, or follow whatever roads will get us there.

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