Obstacles don’t block the path, they are the path.  Oh this is still such a tough one for me.  So many times in a day I find myself lamenting certain things happening.  Bad traffic, difficult employees, crappy decisions from those above me, not being included in decisions (personal and professional) that impact me and I’m expected to manage, watching people around me move on to the things I want (and am trying to move onto) while I seem stuck.  I ask myself why a lot, the improved question of how is this teaching me, is still not innate.  I feel my mind spinning all the time and can’t seem to find solid footing.  I feel the anger and rage at being in the same circumstances no matter what I do, the frustration at feeling tested to face the same circumstances repeatedly without understanding the point.  Perhaps I’ve spent too long living like an exposed nerve, where I’m reactive to every little thing.  Perhaps that has made me take things too personally.  But the biggest obstacle is the frustration at not understanding what I’m supposed to do.

Maybe it’s as simple as making a choice and sticking with it.  Maybe it’s the follow through.  Maybe it’s continuing to make decisions that are right even if they aren’t deemed right by others.  But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t still question why these things happen.  I logically know that it’s easy to follow through and do what we say when things are going well, that it’s the true test to stand our ground when things are getting tough.  But it seems sometimes that no matter what we do, we are repeating the same frustrations and patterns.  We get to the same point, make a different decision, and still wind up with the same issue.  So.  Is the point to then remove ourselves from that situation?  Is it to learn a different way around it?  Or is it that the goal we are shooting for is out of our reach entirely?  That we’ve missed the point?  Regardless of that answer, the idea is the same: the process of determining the answer is our path.  Maybe there is no wrong answer—it is all meant to pass as it happens.  Maybe it is in that response, that belief we find peace.  Nothing is wrong.  It simply is.  And we decide how to move forward with that, and all is well.  With that acceptance the obstacle is removed and we simply see the path.