A guide

    A walk down the road is forever lonely. The road that leads to that ever changing destination. The road different for every individual yet on these roads there are those turns of doubt and deception. The treacherous pitfalls and the wrong turns which might lead you astray. Such times call for a lamp or a board that directs you. A guide in our lives steps into these mighty shoes of direction. The actors essaying this role change over time but the ultimate motive of this character - the guide - remain the same throughout. The guides creed beginning right in the tender days of childhood, with the very first guide being our mother. To take those tentative first steps in this world of hustle and bustle and to supported by the firm of our father. As days tumble into years we learn from the school of life. Every event around us is ready with a lesson for us to perceive and eventually learn at our own pace. The academic front acquaints us with numerous guides in the form of our teachers. The ones who set the pace for a lifetime of acquiring knowledge. The guides though are more often than not restricted to the boundaries of academics at best. Yet at such times we neglect the ones who we learn from on a daily basis . These go uncredited for the influence they have on us and our style of thought.

   A guide is none but who directs us in times of confusion. Their task is to knowingly or unknowingly show us the way which seems to them the better of the choices at hand. They draw in from the lifetime of experiences and judgement to set forth an ideal way. The ideal way is always in fact a relative term than one which can be defined and limited by ethical and moral shortcomings. The fact that experience doesn't always mean the amount of time spent interacting with the variety of events abound is noteworthy. To understand that a guide could be anybody. Ranging from an aged old man to a kid playing by the swing set. The ounce of humility to accept that guides can be found anywhere is lacking at times in many of us. To accept that things can be learnt from the most myriad of sources is great virtue. For knowledge is eternal in its form and hence can be attained from all sources possible. The motto now is to keep our eyes open and be welcoming to the guides life gives us at various junctures.. Keep learning...

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