Wrong Road

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around"
Jim Rohn

Sometimes it's hard for us to realize that we are headed in the wrong direction, let alone down the wrong road. We get some idea of a pre-planned result we want to accomplish for a particular reason, and fail to see that there is another aspect to the situation, a bigger reason why this result would not be a good thing for us. We don't see the whole picture because we are focused on one little part of it. Sometimes, too, we are not even clear about where we want to be headed and are just randomly exploring.

Sometimes other people look at what we're doing and assume that we are doing what we know is best for us. We give them our reasons for doing it and they make good sense to others because they are also unaware of the whole picture or perhaps because they assume that the part we are looking at is the most important part for us. So other people try to help us reach the destination they think we want and need to get to. They try to speed us up. They try to be helpful.

But getting to the wrong destination sooner does not help us. We, and others, need to become aware of the whole situation. We need to learn about the pros and cons of the result that we originally chose, other possible results, and the means of getting to those. So that we can make a better decision about where we need to be headed and how to get there.

Most of us like to assume that the situation is more simple than it actually is, because we don't want to have to think too hard. We read one fact about butter, just for an example, and think we know all we need to know in order to make a good decision about whether to eat butter or not.

But life is never that simple, or that static. We need education, about ourselves and about the things in our world, so that we can make wise decisions about where we need to be headed. And this education needs to be lifelong since both we and the things around us are constantly changing. There is constantly new information and new ideas about who we want and need to be.