Getting Back on Track

Comparing where you are and where you want to be will get you nowhere.

It is always hard for people with several million things in mind to prioritize or to distinguish what to prioritize.

This is common to millennials who, because of having the access to ubiquitous information, think they have the right to go and cast the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes, busying yourself with a variety of businesses gets you lost.

Finding yourself looking for itself will always be a deja vu in this era.
Walking without knowing the why’s of your route is frustrating, not to mention it is unchartedly charted. Worse, trying to get back to your track is not as easy as it sounds. Three things one should consider and remember in finding his or her lost path.

Know your last turn.

An unwritten, universal rule whenever someone got lost is, “Stay wherever you are the minute you find yourself lost”. This makes it easy for somebody else to track us back.

In life, that “Somebody Else” is no other than ourselves. It is only us who will exert an effort to find its missing part. No neighbor, nor friend, nor family, is truly responsible for one’s lost. It is only man for himself.

Ask yourself, “Where was i the last time i check?” , “What made me take that turn?”. “Is it too far already?”. Answer these questions and get back to that point in time as soon as possible.

Know your baggage.

Being able to identify your last familiar location, or in this case, situation, will prompt your getting-back-on-track course. By the time you realize this, you already have given yourself the recognition of where and what you really were. Now this may sound a little vague but, what it really meant is you have now seen your self again, for the first time since you lost the road.

Knowing your baggage may not seem very important but it is. These baggage are the same baggage that you brought when you started your journey. Some if it might have fallen already as you progressed onto your voyage but the ones that important are, absolutely, still there, once you try to find it. These are the most valuable to you. That is the same reason why you have not lost them up to this date.

The things that will make you alive, these are your baggage.

Know your destination.

Are you still taking the same road? Is it still the one you decided to take when you were starting this tour?

A lot, surely, have had changed since your first step. That is why these questions are defining. It completes your course. It validates if it is still getting-back-on-track or taking-the-new-one now.

Whichever road you take at this moment is another starting point. Why? Because after all the troubles, questions and wrong turns that you have involved yourself with, answered, and taken, respectively, it is a fact now that a lot have changed. It is as good as saying that a new you, is starting a new journey.

If it is not, and it is the old you that is starting the travel, then you do not call it starting, you call it continuing.

It is not getting-back-on-track, it is getting-far-from-track.