Every now and then* there comes a time like now.

We feel that everything is going fine with progress along the road** we've chosen to follow.

The scenery, The excitement, Speed breakers, U-Turns, Traffic signals, Diversions, Roundabouts ...

We're a long way down the chosen road - having gone WAY past thinking about turning back or wasting time reflecting upon the road not taken..

We suddenly notice that the road we're on has taken on the appearance of a smooth, 12 lane freeway, no signs for turns, no exit ramps in sight

Just one big glowing sign ahead showing that the road leads to just one place and just about far enough that we'll probably be on the road for a while

And then we realize we what we ought to have realized atleast a little while earlier -

That we are living our dream***, we are on the highway that we've been aspiring to be on all along

Now that theres just us and the road, now is the time to shift into fifth gear, enjoy, have fun and get on with it.

For there is more of this road, then more roads, forks and obsessing in store.

Notes:

*Like thrice in a decade or so.

**A rather clumsy reference to the kind of Roads featured in Frost's 'The Road not taken'. Im sure one gets the idea

*** Medium term dream, to be specific. Um, i know it is a rather pathetic expression.

P.s The whole thing in regular, readable English:

This typically happens when you do the same thing, i mean on a macro basis (Like doing a course for eg. i felt the same way during the 3rd year in college) for more than 2+ years.

After 2+ years on the same thing - on some random sunday - when youre well fed, well rested and with no particularly nagging deadline to catch - you suddenly see it clearly - the need to go from Level 7 to Level 9 at your chosen field of work - to make the 2+ years youve spent to matter to something.

Time to buckle down and do up the homework. Definitely NOT the time to give in to hormones, random stimulus and screw up.

So there.

(P.P.S - I know this is not my style and all. But WTF. We can always go back to Megan Fox and Chinese stock markets tomorrow, no ?)