The mythic path and the No. 15 westbound

Riding the bus can reveal some interesting things about how you live your life. Suppose you need to get somewhere important, like a job interview, and you have to take a trolley, a bus, and a train. Suppose further that you're not familiar with the public transportation system in your city. What's your attitude? What's your approach? Do you plan ahead so that you'll have a clear idea of the timing, and what to expect? Do you wait patiently at the stops? Do you assume, until presented with evidence to the contrary, that you'll make all your connections and arrive on time?  

 

This is the mythic path in a nutshell.

 

On the mythic path, you have a pretty clear idea of where you're trying to go, and it's important to you. You have vision. The way to get there is unfamiliar and holds its share of uncertainty. The better prepared you are, the more you'll be able to relax. But apart from preparation, all you can do is respond to circumstances. Those circumstances can take time to emerge, so you have to be patient. And how you proceed depends on what those circumstances look like, so you have to trust. If you're really good at patience you're less likely to go crazy in the waiting, and you'll be alert to changes in circumstance. If you're really good at trust you'll move forward assuming it's all going to work out, until you hear otherwise, at which point you'll deal with it. You'll also be better able  to weather disappointment, enjoy progress, and learn from setbacks.

 

The way you respond to the seemingly ordinary experience of taking a multistage public-transit journey to a job interview can reveal a lot about how you go through life. Do you work on the assumption that everything is going to work, or do you work on the assumption that everything is going to go horribly wrong? The answer to that question is extremely important.

 

Ever forward.

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