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I want to know if you are following your own path or the path of others. We can all walk behind someone and skip our way through life, but it takes someone special to forge their own path(s). Please, lets discuss our paths.

I fallow my own path.
Everyone wants me to be THEM,or do what they do.
no,
i want to learn my own mistakes,and see what i see
and feel without the help or the stories of others.
NOT,to tell me how to live.
I am one who will listin to everything,but take only what
i desire in.There is no right or wrong,this is somthing i
can only decide if i ever been threw it or seen it.
I can't believe in a beliefe thats within a book,cause i
feel afraid of death..and need support in my life and
creations.
I will learn all that there is to learn about how to make
a life,but.. how i will get there in my choise.
Fallow my own heart,my own dreams.. my own style
of how i look or take care of things.
I don't want to be like everyone else,they are no me,
I..will never be them.How can i do so,if i want to stay
true to myself.
It's good to take advice,
but everyones life turns out diffrent.
I have had others that has tried to force me into things,
and the ways of their living.
I refuse.
I got to suffer here,
i will do it my way.
I may havent gotten far,
but.. im not dead either.

I see no real reason to follow any "path". The path someone takes is their own, and if by choice they direct themselves to a certain philosophy then so be it and more power to them. It doesn't make them any better or worse then anyone else or special to walk a path of any kind. One huge stereotype in my perspective.

I follow the path of: Best judgement, common sense and lifes experience, with a bit of proper ediquette involved as well.

Nuff said.

@ Vampgon477 - You make a good point. WHy try to be someone else? I used to do that all of the time. I think it was because I wanted to be accepted, but not anymore. Thanks for replying.

Reality is people need to stop worrying about "the path." It's individual and not something carved in stone...this is why people end up suffering and wallowing in their own misery, because of a "carved in stone set path." Granted it's generally a learned thing, what we're exposed to growing up and so forth. Cut away the influences of today such as the overload of media... like tv, internet etc... and maybe people can get back to thinking for themselves and shit like common sense and proper ettiquite. Sorry just my opinion.

Well let me just put it this way, people are going to go their own directions in life regardless of who or what influences them. There are people who sometimes come to a "crossroad" in life and don't know which way to go. It's a state of choice and sometimes confusion.

As I was once told long ago, never stand at the crossroads.

As for following others, there was a time when i was younger that i pretty much had no choice in that, at least until I got older and started thinking about life and things in general, started to open my eyes a bit more and see paths more clearly so-to-speak.

It really is about choices and follow your heart and letting IT lead you instead of where everybody wants you to go. That also applies to beliefs.

Well now...

My name is Morgan. I was in The Coven of the Downward Spiral before Radu traded for me. I am 23 years old and I live in Ohio. I am a person who is finding my way in life. I follow and make my own path. I criss cross with others such as here but in the end it is my own path.

I grew up in a small town in Louisiana. I hated it. I had horses, cows, and land. I'm a city kind of person. I like electronics and trains and such. I have claimed to be a vampyre, lycan, and many other identities. I have always wanted to "belong" or be "accepted." At this point in my life I am not too worried about either of those. I know that I need to be myself. I need to know who and what I am. I have put myself in front of trick mirrors all my life and now, I'm cleaning the dusty mirror in the corner. WIth every layer of dust that falls to the side, I see more and more of who I am.

I am going through therapy. I have a mental illness. It is known as Schitzoeffective disorder. I have recently been discharged from Intensive Outpation Program and Now I just see a regular psychiatrist and psychologist. I am doing ten times better than before I got on my medicins. I am proud to say that they are helping me. I used to be very anxious and twitchy and had a lot of problems. Now, I can focus and do things without interruptions.

Well, ask me if you want to learn more. Ah by the way the name is Morgan. :)

I figure that you really can't follow anyone else's path. You can't walk in their shoes, you can't see through their eyes, you don't have their perceptions.

However, I take little bits of everything I have learned over the years, and that makes up whatever it is that I do. If I find something from another that resonates, I take that on board. But it's rare to find something that another person idealises that I will completely agree with, which I am comfortable with because I don't want to be like another person.

I'm not so worried about being an 'individual' (I am so beginning to hate that word, so overused) as I am of being true to myself.

And if that helps someone else on their journey, it's all good

S.

I follow my own path.Always have ad I always will.I have my own guidelines and I stick with those guidelines.
Sometimes this includes walking the path of another for a very short time and visa /versa .Most of the time it is alone however.

There really can not be a said path to follow for me .But to live and let destiny take its course.

I make my own. I take idea's and advice from people but then i use them in my own personal way and make my mind and actions all mine, im no follower im a leader, i'd rather walk down a unlit road, then a lite up one.

I follow that which I seek: Truth. Where others have tread before me and found truths, I gladly and thankfully accept them and add them to my ever-growing understanding of Life, of the Universe around me, and of myself within both of the former. As we all should, I too stand on the shoulders of all who have gone before in their pursuit of greater understandings and have offered to the rest of us through their writings and research the enormous benefit of their successes as well as failures.

However, from that privileged vantage point provided by studying the research of others, I have long ago embarked on a journey of incredible discovery of my own. And this journey has already netted amazing discoveries that either compete or at least bring together the unfinished pursuits of many noted specialists from many diverse fields of study. Some of this I have shared in my profile. However, the depths and extents of my continuing "path," given that it is continually ongoing, I keep to myself.

And yes... the path is highly individualistic given that, frankly, I am about the only one who can travel it.


- Upir'

Well, I grew up learning from others and by my own experiences too. I did put things to arrange in the way that my life goes on learning and moulding with happiness, involving others to be part of our caravan till we can go togather. Yeah I am growing on the path of cosnciousness and even better understanding which impact my awareness to co-exist and dwell in this beautiful world of nice air and Gigantic Creation to go closer to the Creator by merging my inner in the nature of the Universe. Aah this thinking is very beautiful, I love this all. This what min the empath of my own kind grew in the way that we are the kin in the gallaxy to succeed. This what is my motto too. I love unity, equality and co-existance with all the aura of happiness in this world of cores and its sphere.

What I thought, have mentioned here instantly and no posing at all.

always my own path, yes i have had dreams and things which help me find what i need in life etc.. but i try and make my own future and my own past, nothing, and no one other than a mate will make me move away from what i want and need in my own life.

The Best Path is the one that makes you happy. It may go in many different directions. This is not a bad thing.

I find my only Truth is following my heart...I rejected religion some time ago..but what I follow as my deity of choice is Love...as I believe Love is its own entity and bearing up all things...it has no conditional value but values that which it chooses unconditionally.

Love is the I AM of the One and the Whole found within the inner nature of those willing to recognize and embrace it....no matter how much pain it brings...it bears us up in all things, through the mundane and in hope of the divine.

I don't follow any path. My path was formed by looking at different aspects of things, making a decision and going with it. Often times I can see something coming and if I can do something about it i will.

I know alot about religion and have meshed them with my beliefs.

i would like to say i follow my own path, but at times i have to step down and follow other peoples choices,

but for the things that are my belifes i follow my own path i wont bend

I follow my own path but that isn't to say that I don't add things from others around me. If I read something and I like it, I add it. If I view something of someone else and I like it, I add it.

I think we all follow our own path but choose to add what we like from others as well. it is how we advance in knowledge and grow as a person, etc.

For me, I like many different things from all kinds of cultures. I read a lot and travel and learn from others. In doing so, I have become more open to the world in this dimension and out of it. There is so much to explore and so many paths a person can choose, my advice, study what interests you and incorporate what you want into your life's path. Have fun with other's ideas, create your own, and just enjoy the most of what life has to offer!

i follow in my own path. i make my own dicisions and try not 2 let people make em 4 me. tho many times people try 2 take controle of my life and lead me but i am a free spirit and i make my own choices. i hate when people try 2 tell me wat 2 do.

Like most good citizens I follow the same path, the same path they do...
The path of least resistence...Gowd Bless em, I luv em one n all...

There's only one, way of Life...

on that note dear squires may I let the Levellers explain all , skips 2mins 40 seconds. Well, the crowd liked the notion. Of course with as many teennagers in gaol as going to College this may prove impractical.

after bein a policeman and before getting bust for selling weed, I went out with a witch, who showed me a path. a path with two sides and, tho I could go left, or right, the best, for me, was to choose the route that was best for me; not always one or the other.. an, sometimes.. in the middle.

that's roughly how she phrased it ~ an, she had knowledge, so I'd listened...

I would like to think i make my own path, that wat i do is diffrent from everyone else, now although that isnt always the case, i do my best to make own fate

Now reading through most of these posts i have found almost everyone has said that they follow there own path. But is this really true? it's a yes and no, and now i will explain both sides!


Yes,

because to lives can be the same, at least not down to the last aspect, the last thought. everyone has there different bumps and curves in there own road of life, and can choose to take a left or a right, and some even do a u-turn for the better or worse. people can shape there own fate with the thoughts and ideas they have. alo can shape it with the decisions that they make in a every day life.

No,
Because 99% of people are not unique. Try to say you are, but i bet on your profile you have someone elses made images, or someone elses made music. don't you? now that's not entirely yours, which means you followed them in one aspect or another. So no one is truly independent, unless they 100% make there own images, sayings, layouts, and the such. the same goes for other aspects of life, and not just the internet. i do follow, but to a point. I do follow the Bushido code. so i have set guidelines on how to live my life. that is one way i'm following the path. but in the same aspect im not 100% following it. because i am not them.

so, in all, i do believe people follow others paths, but can branch off into there own from time and time again. we all are victims of this, but no one really see's it.

I have no path. What actions I choose create many paths. I hop onto the first one that happens to interest me in any particular moment. If I don't like that path, well, what the heck. I will wait for the next interesting route to wander and wonder...

each of us.. each, of.. us.. meet people on Life's journey, who act as a catalyst toward our next action.

these individuals will help shape our own individual path.

To think about what path in life we fallow i think we can all find wisdom in Robert Frost's poem The Road not taken for those who have not had the honor to study this great work i offer it now.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20

In this poem i think Frost is telling us this with a sigh because he could not take both roads and wonders if he had fallowed down the well worn path if things wouldn't have been better for him in truth i think strength can be found in leaders and followers just remember it is us that must live with what we do and we must chose a path that we feel drawn to it is ok to lead as well as follow but here is another quote for you
"lead fallow or get out of my path" we must chose cause if you sit on the tracks your going to get ran over

Ive always followed my own in all aspects of my life.

Angelus, I think there is influence. Not only from witches but higher and lower dimensions.
One can feel like a mouse being toyed with, the question is whose paw is it?

I think I am still discovering my own path.. I don't follow others however I do take qualities of theirs that I admire and mould them into my own life strategies :) One person can't make all the mistakes there are to be made!! You have to learn from others as well!! It isn't always fun to walk alone either :)

cool piece forlorndreamer.. says so much.. and yes, singinghost, tho we all try to walk our own path.. we walk in the footsteps of those before us.

Aye, This is very beautiful poem I did read with love.
Very lovely rhyme flown from start to end with very nice metaphor and subject voiced in each line.

in my opinion I follow:


Eye follow the common road which is big,
Rovered by mass & drummed the surface,
Road is clean and no obstecle laying within,
Where set the clear Milestones each follows.

The road with the dirctions brings destination,
Path of success, to walk on the road of wisdom.

Everyone would love to believe they follow their own path. But, almost everyone takes a little something from the style or life of another. We take the same path as our friends, follow their trends, and try to 'blend in'. Few people are truly eclectic enough to be considered totally and completely unique.

I would love to say I follow my own path, but in reality I follow a similar path to any other angsty teen. I read manga, watch anime, love the occult, wear dresses and old plaid shirts. I fit into a million categories. I live in my school's band room. I blend in more than I'd like to. But, I'm me, and that's the path I try to follow.

There are days when I feel I don't so much follow a path but rather stumble and trip my way through life.

I don't worry about where I'm going, I have faith that one day I'll end up in the right place at the right time.

First off, I follow the Wiccan Rede. And do believe the fundemantls of Wicca. But in Wicca, every one forges their own belief system from there.

If you follow another's path, surely you will lose sight of your own...

now.. that's a good point. yet, I was intimating, that by following a path that others might have taken, before you, then you will find yourself, at times in theior foots steps. not, that one was chooding the path of another.

I follow my own path that lets me explore my true nature in a way i dont have people telling me how to act or what to do. My path lets me defend my friends and tear into those who would harm them or their family. In short it lets me speak my mind and be who i am without hiding who i am. I enjoy what my path is because it is not good or bad its inbetween and that is how i am.

surely that last statement applies to most, who are true to their own path, no matter where it leads...

Yes, but as i read these posts, your all right and wrong. I mean no ones path is truly 100% theirs. and in the same aspect no ones path is 100% followed either.

it makes it worth thinking about, but nothing we should spend hours on. We do take things like words, or actions from one anothers paths, and sometimes paths intervene and cross, and other times they twist in a spiral together, helping and shaping the other ones.

I don't follow a path, I make one.

i would say i follow my own....because it's like this,you gotta follow where the heart leads to and if you don't you might miss out on something that is really important in life

ok, 2 sections to this post...


1.) FateUnseen and 1lovejojo Why must you lie? No ones path is 100% theirs. For example, if it was, you would not be on VR right now. This is cancers path, his making. You are twisting, and spiraling with his path, as we all are, we all follow a small section of cancers path by being on this website! No ones path is 100% theirs. it's as simple as the cloths we wear. It was some one else's idea, and design that we liked, so we choose to buy it, and wear it, to show there work or what we like. and what they did, intervened into out life's path. or it can be more complex like meeting a new friend. My point is, we all intervene in paths, and cross many, and never truly make our own, we follow little steps of millions of peoples.

2.) Angelus and PoeticHeart, Thank you. I put a lot of thought into these type of things. I am always thinking and learning about humans, and our minds, and why we do things, and the such. As Angelus you have seen my other posts in other threads, and how deep i can get into them. So thank you, for the complement you guys!

I follow the path as it opens before me, it is forged out of my life and experiences and most of all, the choices I make.

Sometimes, people walk with me for a while. When this happens, I learn and I teach but eventually we will turn in different directions at some point. Mainly the path is mine.

Just because I enjoy someone else's music, or art, or product or food or movie or book - does not mean I have followed their path - just that our paths have crossed (however Indirectly) and I have acknowledged something about them I liked or admired.

daemona,

I like your views, and i do stand corrected. Your right, it's not following there path, persay, but in a way it might be conceived as following.

it's real early in the morning, been up all day....Sometimes my thoughts work backwards....lol

we all tread in the footsteps of those great men and women before us, at some point..

Do you mean like the phone?
Or the light bulb?
or the car?

We also build off of others paths to create our own too, in a separate yet similar way!

I follow my own path,Religion is a concept of mans design to controle their fellow man.

Well I am going to be completely honest, I started out in life following the path my parents brainwashed me into following. It had nothing to do with religion but the self belief the instilled in me as a child.

Then as maturity set in and I realised that I didn't have to be the person they tried to create, that I didn't have to be who they wanted me to be, I began to look at myself and began following my own path if you want to call it a path. Living your own life would probably be a better way of putting it. But it is something that took time as I shook off the shackles of self belief they placed on me.

that was exactly what I referred to Tox.. tho we all try to walk "our own path"... that very action, will lead where others have been before.

I dance to the beat of my own drum!

and may you not tread too deeply in the footprints of those before you...


**Grins**

few of us can replicate or better the path of those who walked a similar path.. and though we make effort to walk our own, there's an aknowledgement to those before us, that few choose to accept. seemingly.

hence the grin.

i feel that i am following my own
path

sheepole? all I wished to illustrate was that by walking 'our own path', you will inavertantly, walk where others have already. you can't help it.

I am closing the thread because it appears we have gotten all useful discussion out of it.