At the intersection of what is and what can be, our stories are written.

It's where decisions are made and lives are ultimately defined.

In which way you go when staring at this fork in the road can mean everything.

Maybe you go left, take the easy path, minimal upside, minimal downside, proven and tangible.

It gives immediate identity but also brings with it some degree of regret, not because you won't like who you are,

but because you'll never know what you could have been.

Maybe you can't live with that.

Maybe you go right.

Let's say you roll the dice, dream chaser, eyes fixated on the horizon, moving toward it,

soon to realize that the world you live in will bring you to your knees faster than you can blink.

That uncertainty hurts, that effort without immediate validation is pain, and that the road

less traveled is less traveled because of the difficulty associated with it.

And now you have a very important question to ask yourself. Do you have what it takes? Can you see the big picture when the sky appears to be falling down around you?

When all it takes is to backpedal and be comfortable again,

to take the other road to return to what you knew, can you still move forward?

See, it's a funny thing when you're in pain, it becomes very easy to forget why you began.

The pragmatic human brain sees discomfort as a problem and it wants it gone

immediately. People don't give up because they're cowards. They don't quit because they

don't have what it takes. They give up because they can no longer see the big picture.

They forgot why they started.

When all you see is directly in front of you, you lose the ability to see your finish line.

When you're at a crossroad, you have to know this.

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