I am a hiker. I live in Southern
California which is a wonderful place to live if you love to hike. Mountains,
hills, and panoramic views abound. My "playground" is the Laguna
Wilderness area. It surrounds the town of Laguna Beach with some 77 miles of
hiking trails. Now, Laguna Beach is an artist colony and a beautiful little
town. It runs along the coast climbing from the Pacific Ocean to the top of the
steep hills that border it and is a destination not only for tourists but
locales as well. Now, there are only three ways into Laguna, either by Pacific
Coast Highway from the north and south or Laguna Canyon Road from the east.
One of the starting points for my hikes is Coastal Peak Park. The road that
leads to it parallels a toll road that intersects Laguna Canyon Road. Now, the
road that leads to this park is wide and well maintained, but dead ends at the
park, never connected to Laguna, and is clearly marked as having no outlet. Yet
invariably about every five minutes or so a vehicle will come zooming down this
road, the driver thinking they have found a "secret" back door into
Laguna avoiding the inevitable traffic and/or tolls. They arrive at the turn
around, pause for a moment and then speed back the way they came. Maps clearly show
this road ends, has no outlet, yet this continues unabated, something I have
observed for years.
We have all done it at times in our lives. We saw the signs that we were headed
in the wrong direction, but we sold ourselves on the idea that it would be OK,
or worse, we really weren't seeing what we were seeing, a form of willful
blindness. Now, a driving mistake is one thing, the price a little extra burned
fuel, some lost time. But what of the signs ignored in the areas of
relationships, our children, careers and the like? We must learn to pay
attention to the signs, and if heading in the wrong direction or toward a dead
end, stop and alter course, to trust our intuition, the voice that speaks the
truth, even when we don't want to hear it. And if we are unsure of what
direction to follow, we seek guidance, perhaps secular, perhaps spiritual,
hopefully both. Oh, and even if on the wrong road, there is always something to
learn and see, the road to Coastal Peak Park provides some wonderful views,
both ways.
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