Have you ever faced a fork in the road of your life?

Yeah a couple… They aim for the eyes, I suggest you go the other way. The devil is always at the crossroads

I have taken the “fork” a number of times, I won’t bore with all the details and have never regretted doing that. In a nutshell, it would have been easier to stay in the East when I was young, but I went far away instead. It would have been safer to marry the appropriate man and follow a traditional path but I refused, and ultimately it would have been a lot less emotionally slamming from family, friends and strangers had I not fought so hard in so many arenas to have KatawaGrey.

I have onecoming up that I’m preparing for.

@Blackberry RUN! and cover your eyes! *Which might prove problematic but… you know? I think a random cell phone tower is better than a fork in the road anyday.

*I intentionally changed “Telephone pole” to “Cell phone tower” because I am old…

That’s sad. There goes my day…

Have you ever faced a fork in the road of your life?
A few.

When was the last time you faced a fork in the road and did you take the safe easy route or the road of the unknown?
Not the last time, but at the most life altering I skipped the roads all together and plowed my own path. (The last time I stuck to the road but took the one less traveled as it were.)

What was the life challenging decision you faced and how did it turn out.
It wasn’t what I thought it was when I started, but in the end it was how to live life; it’s turned out better than I could’ve imagined.

Did you stop and ask for directions
No, but I did get some good unsolicited advice, turns out no matter which path you take – even when cutting your own – you’re never alone.

and given a do over would you go the other way??
Only out of curiosity just to see what might have been, otherwise not a chance.

@wonderingwhy What is this “safe” and “Easy” that you speak of? I am not familiar with these terms. *Smiles.

I’ve had several forks in my life.

The irony to me are the forks you don’t even realize are there. Maybe you sent an application to a college just as filler, and ended up going there. Maybe you turned down a date with a girl who could’ve ended up being your wife.

If I had been dating a girl when I graduated high school, I likely would’ve stayed home and gone to college there, rather than move several hours away for school. My life would be totally different, and that was all just on the fork of not having a g/f after high school. I didn’t even think about it until a year or two ago.

Oh wow. I think sooner or later that fork is sitting there as big as Robert Frost’s “Two Roads” – whether it is forks that we in some way form ourselves or big old forks where there has been a personal earthquake of some kind that made the known road impossible to take anymore. But life is an adventure and we are on it. I am sure at the end of our days many of us will be astonished at all the zigs and zags life took. Now that causes me to think of a question!

Sorry@cruiser, I got so excited I forgot to fully answer your question. My two big forks were moving across Canada for one year and ending up meeting the love of my life and staying here ever after. The next big fork was his demise many years later. We were very in love, had family and are western Canadians thoroughly. Actually about twenty years later, my entire “family of origin” as they say, all moved out here too from eastern Canada. Things have worked out fine and what hasn’t I have accepted as all part of the life trip.

Yep, the fork I reached forced me to take a leap of faith, jump off the cliff, and, I landed on my feet, shakily yes, but still standing. lol

Trust your gut, put thought aside and listen to your inner voice. We all have the answer within, if we but listen. :-)

Hehe loving the car themed question, @Cruiser. Very apt.

Yes, it was in 2008 when I took the road of the unknown and it turned out badly for me. It’s not often I gamble against odds but I wanted what I wanted so bad that I was willing to try and accept failure if it fell through. The accepting failure part was hard. Would I do the same situation again? No.

I’ve faced two life-changing forks in the road. The first was coming out of the closet, and the second was getting sober. I wouldn’t change anything.

I’m very happy living as a gay, divorced father who is very actively involved in his children’s lives, and quite simply, I would be dead had I not found sobriety through A.A.

After my divorce, I decided no more full time relationships for me…… up to then I had been in three, four what you could call long term relationships, not including the marriage……. Yep, the single life for me, I could have dived straight back in but thought better of it…… So, no more forks as yet but there have been a couple of ⅓ uphill struggles & a few ⅓ rapid descents but for now I’m still on the straight & narrow…. Lol……. Sorta ;-)
I just follow the signs now & avoid the NO ENTRY ones….......