I stumbled across something earlier this week that just kind of stuck with me…”Life is like a funnel – it start out at the top where the possibilities are endless and eventually through our choices (jobs/family/bills/kids/etc) we end up at the bottom, limited to the way things are.”  Funny how as we get older and ‘grow up’ life ties us to certain responsibilities we feel compelled to carry out.  Even if we don’t always want to continue doing things that way – we do it anyway.

Here’s the thing though…possibilities are just that…a whole lot of maybe’s in life.  Maybe doesn’t mean yes and it doesn’t mean no and sometimes depending on the possibility, sometimes it isn’t even a GOOD thing.  Take for example -

1. The possibility of RAIN
2. The possibility of flooding as the rivers continue to rise on a daily basis.
3. The possibility of a new job
4. The possibility of a celebration

On the surface most of these (1,3 & 4) seem like a good thing where as 2 doesn’t really seem like the possibility of something any of us would hope for, but could we be wrong?

1. Rain – Good thing if there has been little to none; Bad, however, if the area is already saturated and river levels are high.
2. Flood – Bad thing because no one really wants to risk losing everything or anything; Good however, if you’ve been holding on to something (house/property/etc) for all the wrong reasons and a disaster like this can help break the ties.
3. New Job – Good thing if its more money or career growth or personal satisfaction; Bad, however, if it means someone else is losing a job
4. Celebration – Good because we all like to ‘celebrate’; Bad, however, if any of the first three possibilities interfere and prevent the celebration as planned.

Possibilities, for me, are not endless…at least not the way they once were.  I will admit that I feel like I am swirling down my funnel of life knowing that I cannot stop this progression and yet still clinging to the hope that things can change … if I really want them to.

Over the next 2 weeks each possibility above will become a reality and a choice will be made.  Each can go 1 of 2 ways and only then will I know the outcome.  I like having options, possibilities, choices, but there comes a point when we’re far enough into the funnel that you can see what they are before they get there.  A point in life where we cannot blindly ignore one because ‘something better’ could be out there.

I am here and I don’t have the answers…