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10 Life Lessons From The Highway (Part 8 of 10)

LIFE LESSON #8:

Sometimes Our GPS Gets It Wrong

A year or so after landing in Canada, as we set about finding a more permanent home, we knew a bit more about the layout of our city. However, unfortunately not enough to allow us to travel without some means of guidance.

At first our guide was Google (not Google Maps!). We would look up an address and print off the directions to the address, making sure we also print off the directions to return home! As we traveled along each journey we paid close attention to every turn and every stop. We did miss sometimes, but…well, obviously we got back on track.

Later on we decided to purchase a GPS to assist with real-time guidance, thinking that would have solved our problems. After all, the GPS is always correct! Right!!?? Well not quite so.

I recall one particular time we set out to an address that we wanted to go check out, GPS set and off we went. We traveled along for sometime and as it indicated that we were near to our destination we started to get anxious, and worried! Because we seemed to have been heading into a vast undeveloped piece of Prairie land.

Eventually we heard the words “You have reached your destination l. Your destination is on the left.” We immediately laughed and looked at each other. We knew this could not have been where we ought to be, because where we had stopped was smack in the middle of nowhere! Not a building was in sight! Just white, snow covered grassland!

When your destination is a home address, and your GPS gets it wrong

Needless to say, we returned home with a few anxious thoughts, since that same unreliable GPS was what we would have to rely on to get home! We also learned an important lesson: Not every GPS is reliable, and even the most reliable ones are not necessarily correct all the time!

That job that you lost; that marriage that broke down; that trip to the emergency room. These are all places that one does not set out intending to get to, but that’s where their GPS has taken them. It is then up to us to have a plan to get back on track.

We need to ensure that we do our own homework and not rely on someone else to guide us the whole way. What we need is someone reliable to point us on the right direction, advise us on the tools we need, and then set out.

O. N. Rowe

There will be some wrong turns along the way, but as long as we keep on pressing in the direction we seek to go, we will be advancing with every step…and that is the essence of progress!

Don’t be afraid to seek guidance as you travel along your journey. Sometimes all you need is someone to point you in the right direction.