{"id":396,"date":"2023-02-20T00:39:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantpower42.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2024-06-01T02:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T02:19:28","slug":"a-fork-in-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantpower42.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/a-fork-in-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"A fork in the road."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Actually it was a sidewalk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or I guess maybe a “path”. A sidewalk would be next to a road. This was thru a field, so it’s a path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fork was in my own mind anyways, so it doesnt really matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was on my way home from Whole Foods Market, and as the crow flies I should have been at something of a 45 degree angle cutting thru the grass, bearing right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not like you have to walk on the path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t wet on the grass. Alligators don’t jump up and eat you. The path is more a suggestion that you might as well ignore unless you were walking to that tree in front of the yellow square building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they put it there for a reason. If everyone ignored it, we’d have dead grass. (Although then maybe those are the areas where they should lay a path \ud83e\udd14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could’ve gone either way in my mind, but there’s something to be said for going with what’s laid out for you sometimes. So I decided to stay on the path, and then turn right when I get to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An exercise in going with the flow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then when I got to the part where it weaved left attempting to lengthen my walk, I called it off and cut thru the grass from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still glad I gave the path a try. If you go around looking for every angle at all times you might get burnt, or run out of gas trying. Nothing wrong with following a path and then deviating where you need to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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