"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels fastest who travels alone." ~ Rudyard Kipling
This quote kind of makes me think of the "march to your own drummer" quote. It's important not to let the masses make your decisions for you. Whether you are to fail or succeed, be unhappy or happy, be bad or be good, the best way to make those decisions is consulting yourself, your inner conscience, your own moral compass.
Others will try to drag you down, slow you up, push you off the path toward your goals. You're not supposed to let them, no matter how tempting it may be to "fit in." You'll get where you want to go best done by counting on yourself first and foremost, and only taking direction or support from those who are on the same path, or at least see where you're going.
It's not easy to travel this way, but it is the fastest way.
So... on the other hand, why fast? I don't think that this means being the perfect success by the time you're out of college -- certainly I missed that mark. I do think it means that you'll take less wrong turns, or at least wrong turns that take you off the path you're supposed to travel. Some wrong turns, after all, are actually right turns you didn't know you should make beforehand.
Some wrong turns teach us lessons about ourselves we wouldn't learn in other situations, and sometimes all they do is prove to us that way was definitely not the right way for us to go.
Here's hoping that the "closed door" from losing out on the job last week, "opens a window" to a much better opportunity this week.
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