I Took the Only Path To See You

CHAPTER 4Choosing Your Own Path

Hollywood loves zombie movies and TV shows. Zombies are the reanimated corpses that stagger about in search of human flesh to consume. Zombies are often called the “walking dead” because even though they can walk just like a regular person, they're brain-dead inside, so their movements are purely mechanical.

While zombie movies and TV shows may be scary, there's an even more frightening type of zombie that you can see around you every day. These type of zombies may not eat human flesh nor are they reanimated bodies of people who have already died. The zombies I'm talking about are people who are the true walking dead.

These real zombies are people who never take a chance, never make a stand, never make a choice, and ultimately, never really live. You may have seen these people before. In the words of Henry David Thoreau, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

That's because far too many people wait for life to come to them rather than actively going out and grabbing the life they want to lead for themselves. When you passively wait for life to come to you, you'll probably be waiting a lifetime.

Everyone knows of the man who could have made a fortune if only they had made the right choice. Everyone knows of the woman who could have been a success if she had only kept going. Everyone knows somebody full of talent, loaded with skills, and blessed with good luck, who still wound up living a life of mediocrity.

The biggest tragedy isn't ...