A probable path and possible outcomes.... Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with your family…
Originally published on LinkedIn · Post · November 28, 2024
A probable path and possible outcomes....
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with your family, friends and loved ones. 🙏 🩷
With a grateful heart, I had a day filled with thankfulness for numerous things in my life. I especially like Thanksgiving as it's a wonderful practice to consciously cater some time to reflect on what we are thankful for, while it can be a daily habit of journaling gratitude for many of us.
I was reflecting and wondering about the life path, or the road taken due to our choices etc.,
Soon, I could connect to one of the concepts I studied, Operations Research (OR), a beautiful topic in Statistics (Hira and Gupta, I think?) as part of my major in undergrad. At a very high level, it talks about network paths, weights, algorithms for the path most taken, fast route, efficient route etc., and how it calculates a different network path based on your parametric changes.
Our life path is similar to that network path. Let me explain how...
If we imagine our life at large with x units of potential to reach (unknown quantity of course) but with every choice, every decision, every move, every action, every event both controllable and uncontrollable etc. either by design or by fate, our life shapes itself and adopts to a blueprint of life path.
And the parameters comparable to OR discussed above can be, fame, money, fulfillment, passion/ craft utilized well, principled path etc., the life path changes according to it.
A simple relatable idea to think this through is, I can't drive to India and expect to see 'statue of liberty' or I can't drive down to NY and expect to see 'Taj Mahal'. I can't get upset, frustrated, cry and roll on the floor to see a different outcome just because I felt that's how it should be, in my mind.
Our dreams, aspirations, goals coupled with who we are in true spiritual identity + our principles and character (or lack of it for some) + our actions = consequences and outcomes.
We change them by working through our own path, work and operate within our scope, ability and sphere of control and influence.
In today's world with many things, many content types, many other things that may or may not be worth our attention, it's our own responsibility to triage them, discern the right/wrong, establish a course/ path to the next best action suited to our life/personality/mentality and keep going with all the good wisdom, kindness, patience, love, humanity etc.,
The fundamental idea I'm drawing today is, understand that there's a probable path mapped to the overall tapestry of the world around us in simple, mere co-existence AND the resulting consequences. This is where the game changing bets are.
Hope you can reflect on this idea for yourself, bring newer perspectives and help yourself to steer and drive with intention to see the possible outcomes and bring success to oneself and others. Wishing a wealth of healing energy to all those who are going through hard times. 🙏
Peace and Love.🌹 🩷
