Our pathway through life
To the editor:
We are all aware, “There is a time to be born and a time to die.” We have no choice whether to accept life or not, but once life begins, then how we live our lives is our choice.
The road of life is one we all must travel and as we travel this road through the years, now and then there is a toll gate where the price we pay is with tears, pain and heartache.
We struggle through our young years with school work, sickness, disappointment, broken hearts, good and bad friendships, etc.
By the time we reach the age of 15, we think we are smarter and know more than the generation before us, especially our parents.
When we reach the last year of high school we think the world is ours, we know who we are, where we are going, and what we are going to do with our life.
By the time we reach the age of 20 we realize we were not so smart after all. We find that the real world is not like we dreamed it would be.
That perfect marriage that we planned wasn’t so perfect after all, we found the great job in the workforce was not what we wanted, or what we thought it would be, or someone else got there first.
Once we enter the workforce we begin to experience the everyday stresses of life. Then as we bring our children into to world the stresses increase.
As we struggle through the years we all look forward to what is referred to as the Golden Years. However, by the time we reach this time in life, age has taken its toll on us and the Golden Years seem to be always just beyond our reach.
We all know that the pathway of life eventually leads us to the moment of death.
Considering all the pain, tears and heartaches endured during my lifetime, it has been a fun trip. When the clock of life stops for me, if I can say, ‘I left the world a better place to live and work’, there will be no regrets.
Howard E. Worthington
MSgt USAF retired
Mapleton
