PIONEERING...YOUR OWN JOURNEY

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Pioneering your own Journey in what ever it is, writing, music, photography, parenting, marriage really requires us to stop asking our outside world and start listening to our inside one.  But most of us are so busy looking at what others are doing to see if we are doing right.  We're taught from day one that making mistakes is bad and we never develop a sense of independence and our own identity we simply become followers of the mass mentality. 

I belong to several creative groups and the thing that really puzzles me is how everyone wants to do the same thing even when its been done so many times before.  I realize that I am on a different path from everyone else and my own journey will take me else where.  Though the road may look lonely, it's simply an uncharted path that perhaps only the brave or lunatics tread.

How many people said to Columbus, "Columbus, you're a lunatic, you're going to fall off the world," or better yet, "Columbus, why don't you just sail to England like everyone else is doing."  Columbus had a strong inner voice that said, "No, I know a quicker way to India."  But what he found was America.  The rest is history.

No one celebrates homogenization except the dairy companies.  People like difference, uniqueness, special, rarity, even when they don't know they do.  Pioneering your own journey is the only way to succeed.