Life is never what you expect. Even though we are told to follow the straight and narrow, it doesn't mean that the course of our lives is one. Life is full of twisted, jumbled roads. And when we drive, we have one final destination. And sometimes we get off at the wrong exit and need a GPS to get us back on the right road again. Sometimes we try to take shortcuts to get there faster and then we end up in the middle of no where; alone and afraid. We realize that we should've taken the backroads and enjoyed the beauty of our wonderful Earth. You think that everything is over. That you're never going to get back home. But then when you finally do get back home, you realize that, in the end, everything would be ok and that you'd get back home eventually.
Life is the same way.
It is definately hard to make all of the wrong choices all of the time. We may take our hands off of the wheel to text or turn up the radio, but then we end up in a ditch or going to the wrong exit. We always need help to get out of the ditch or get back on the right road again. And that's why we have friends, family, teachers, advisors, and Heavenly Father. They are our GPS. They can get us back onto the main road. They can give us forgiveness when we try to take the easy way out and end up in the middle of nowhere. They help us have the optimism that everything will be ok in the end. They can help us see the beauty all around us and enjoy every minute of it. I guess I've come to realize it in the course of my tangled roads, and I'm glad for that.