Stop and Go!

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I swear, I’ll get out of this town if it’s the last thing I do. Change is natural, they say. And yet, life persists, static........

Is growth even possible in suburban suspension? To be: the mouse to beat the rat race, the tree to breach the canopy, to grown, unabated and free? Yes, we know, the system tells us no, and though...we must forego the show. 

You are the carefully planted trees, placed at predetermined intervals along the cul de sac, manicured and primed to be proper and poised. You will grow in that exact spot for years and years and die, right there, in Sametown, U.S.A. And yes, you will be safe, and you will be guarded. But you will stagnate in the malaise that paints you a number and not a person.......

This is the path, YOU have the choice. 

Be the ragged spruce, looking down on the mountain. Be the desert cactus, laughing at the Sahara's scorn. Be the noble Banyan, vine strong with life.
Because really, growth comes from within, and change is taking a chance. It is looking at "the same interstate..the same office..and the same Microsoft excel spreadsheet" and saying no. 

I'm not asking you to scorn the path, only to question it. To pull up to the stop sign, take a look around, and think.