What does it mean to live a life on the straight path? Does it mean you will never have any curves and sharp turns in it? I don't think so. I think living a life worth living means that you will always travel on curvy roads, filled with potholes and obstacles, and crowded in by many other rushing, dashing cars along your journey. Living on the straight path just means that you are always TRYING to stay on course, regardless of the many diversions and detours along your journey. Life is filled with temptations, vices, distractions, and time-wasters. People constantly come along your path who try to dissuade you from living a moral, principled life. Opportunities to make good and bad decisions come to you daily. It's up to you to stay resolute in your mind and stay on course about the principles, goals, and plans you set out for yourself. It's EASY to stray off course and lose sight of your final destination when you get so stuck in the small minutiae of daily life. It takes discipline and courage to keep faith and see the bigger picture.
What does living on the straight path mean? It means that you often have to do things you dislike or even HATE! How many people like getting up in the morning, half asleep, and do their stretches and exercises?? Certainly not I! But, without proper exercise and stretching, you set yourself for a life filled with weakness, immobility, fatigue, and injuries. Choosing the straight path often means taking care of yourself FIRST. Because, if you are not healthy and strong, you will not have the strength to make the right choices in life. Weakness in the body can also lead to weakness in the mind. How many of us have gotten off our exercise schedules and became so lazy and lethargic that we became over-eaters, depressed about our weight gain, and then create more excuses for why we can't do this or that? It's a cycle of negativity that can't be broken unless we fight it with all our might.
Let's start living a life worth living by taking the road less traveled...it's not the easy road, paved flat and smooth, but the fun, exciting, bumpy one!
