"pardon me...

i'm currently in search of a particular road

one that leads neither here nor there

one that just kinda takes you

takes you slow or takes you not so

see i'm unaware of where i'm going

not sure i'm going anywhere at all

but my blood it courses

and my will is strong

so if you're from around these parts i'd like to know

are you familiar with a road that simply just

goes?"

John the Ghost

I have never been one to just go with the flow, but I kind of forced myself to have to be this person when I got this poem tattooed down the left side of my torso.

For as long as I have been alive I have tried to intricately plan every minute detail in my life only to be disappointed or let down when exactly the opposite of my plans occur.

It took this poem from one of the most influential people in my coming of age years that made me realize that it doesn't matter what road I take; no matter what I will always be moving forwards. All of that time spent making myself crazy for what?

Nothing.

Simply because everything I did to have things go my way didn't work out didn't mean nothing in my life was changing. I am not in the same place I was yesterday, or the week before, or years ago because the road is never ending. I will always continue down one road or another to process in life. That's the thing about the life, it will never go the way you want it to because that would be all too easy.

Trying to formulate the idea that things, for the most part, couldn't be dictated by myself was impossible to understand, but I don't have a choice other than to do just that.

There are millions of roads that people travel on a daily basis and almost never are the roads they had intended to travel down when their eyes opened that morning. Sometimes the only thing that can be done is take what comes at you and let it guide you where it was meant to in the first place because no matter what you are always moving forward.