Branches and Roots: Onwards and Upwards

Hey everyone!  I'm not really sure what I will write about tonight, so please stand by while I ramble nonsensically about stuff.

'K?  Good.

I like this picture.  I've always been a sucker for cool aesthetics and symbolic imagery.  Plus, I think it really sums up the idea of "branches" that I'm kinda going for on this blog.  Branches reach up, right?  They are a metaphor for growth and moving forward.  A "spread your wings" kind of thing.  This blog is in a small way the first of my "branches" reaching out.  The words I write here are not just for myself anymore.  They are going to a place where they can't be ignored.  They are out in the open.  My words may not be very unique or interesting, just like a branch of tree isn't very distinguishable from the next branch or the branch of the next tree.  However, the words of the branch, no matter how plain, make the ideas they carry reach further off the ground than ever before, like leaves on a branch.

Dang, what a confused and mixed metaphor that was...

All that being said, most of the time I feel like the tree and the branches in the picture above.  I fully expect my words and ideas to take my branches and my leaves upwards.  Elevating them, bettering them, making them stand out from the pack.  However, my branches don't always go up.  They slant, droop, and go about every which way but up.  These unexpected twists and turns my ideas take are not always a bad thing.  In fact, the way in which my branches almost never take me upwards gives me more of a reason to keep writing.

I can't always expect every step I take to move me forward in life.  We all like to think that each triumph and mistake is taking us closer to person we were meant to be, like steps on the yellow brick road of life.  Isn't it possible that where we are right now in life, with our branches all twisted sideways, is the exact position we should be in right now?  It's not wrong to think forward, but our branches miss out on so much of the world if they only grow skyward.  So for now, I will ne content that I'm not growing upwards.  There is a lot of space to explore to my left and my right that I'm sure I will be the sorry that I missed.

Thanks for indulging in my random nonsense today everyone and May the Fourth be with you!