Life is like a book.
Actually, not just any book. A choose your own adventure book (shout out to the 80's for those of us old enough to remember them!).
Every chapter unveils a new opportunity to choose a different path.
Each choice builds on the events that came in the pages before and brings you closer to the (hopefully happy) ending.
Sometimes, when you turn the page and a choice is presented, it's an easy choice to make. All of the options are no-brainers and the one you pick makes you smile and feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Other times, turning the page reveals a choice that is both scary and exciting at the same time. One option is comfortable and safe, the other not so much.
The scary choice calls to you, presenting an opportunity to have something you never thought you could have, or offering you a completely different view of the world.
I think that most of the time, the scary choices are the best ones to make. Life is meant to be lived, and we are meant to take chances.
No matter what happens or how scary the choices become, you have to keep making them, and turning the pages if you want to find out how the story ends.
So take that risk, make that choice, and turn that page.
And build yourself an amazing, imperfectly perfect story.