Those of you who are regulars will recall not only that I am a keen walker but one of my chief delights is when I find a whole new dimension to a place a I know well.  This involves straying from the ways we know into the unknown, and usually getting lost!  I suppose getting lost is just another label we give for places we don’t know.  However in life, if we just stay safe all the time, if we never go off the beaten track, then how do we learn?  How do we move on?

So today, me and my faithful companion were planning to use what I thought was a path on the map, but when we got there, it turns out it wasn’t a path, just a boundary line.  We ended up wading through chest high ferns and nettles trying to find our way, crossing little streams and traversing mini-bogs.  It felt like a real jungle adventure of the Boy’s Own variety!  We had a great time.

So perhaps today is a good day to depart from your well trodden paths and open yourself up to something new?  Perhaps to enable someone close to you to move into a new space too?  Change begins with leaving the familiar behind and opening yourself up to the unknown… why not give it a go?

“What is the difference between exploring and being lost?”   Dan Eldon
“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.”