The Direction the Wind Blows

If you don't know where you want to go, what you want to do,
the direction in which you go doesn't matter

I first saw this picture ironically one day after having a conversation with my aunt about the very same topic. How do we move "forward" when we don't know what we want? See the truth is, at 25 I still don't really know what I want out of life, where I truly want to go, or what I want to be doing. The only thing I suppose I do know, is that I want to be happy, regardless of where I am, or what I'm doing just to get by.

I mean that's what it's all about isn't it... every path we take is defined by what we want out of life, the house we want to live in, the materialistic things we want to buy, the private school we want to send our kids to one day. Things that can't be obtained unless we have a plan, and by plan I mean a stable way of generating money. So does money purchase a ticket to a life filled with happiness?

But I've strayed... So is it okay to not know what you want? Is it possible to live a happy life without this knowledge? Honestly, I still don't really know the answer to this, or the answer to a lot of questions actually, but I do know this quote did come at a time when I really needed it... "If you don't know where you want to go, the direction you go doesn't matter".

The moral of the story is, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, going where the wind blows me, just because I can, if that makes me seem irresponsible to some, then hey... at the end of the day we all have our own individual lives to live. And right here in this moment, where I don't know what I want, I still manage to be happy.