Footprints in the Snow
God, I love walking…without it I would lose much of my time for realization.
Footprints in the snow are a reflection of the path that both we have walked upon life and that life has walked upon us. Just as we leave imprints on the area we travel — the impressions we leave with the people and things that surround us, those same people and things create similar effects on us.
As we walk along our path, we can see where the footprints ahead of us have gone, creating different paths for us to follow. Their existence makes us more likely to follow them, which is an important point to make because we are the threshold of life. While it is important for experiences of the past to serve some role in guiding us towards our future, it is important to balance this constraint with the freedom of exploration. Once you leave the beaten path, everything becomes a fresh path of exploration, and there is a lot to be said about laying the first tracks. Not in some kind of self-promoting way, but rather in a self-effacing way — we beat the path so that others may follow.
Footprints in the snow are a reflection of the path that both we have walked upon life and that life has walked upon us. Just as we leave imprints on the area we travel — the impressions we leave with the people and things that surround us, those same people and things create similar effects on us.
As we walk along our path, we can see where the footprints ahead of us have gone, creating different paths for us to follow. Their existence makes us more likely to follow them, which is an important point to make because we are the threshold of life. While it is important for experiences of the past to serve some role in guiding us towards our future, it is important to balance this constraint with the freedom of exploration. Once you leave the beaten path, everything becomes a fresh path of exploration, and there is a lot to be said about laying the first tracks. Not in some kind of self-promoting way, but rather in a self-effacing way — we beat the path so that others may follow.
We are all on the same path together, and it’s not a race. It’s a pilgrimage, on whose road it is always better to offer a hand of assistance. Instead of seeking to glorify yourself by making yourself as better than other people as you can, seek to glorify them by making them as good as you are.
