Our travel is influenced by:
- the people we meet - whether they are supportive, or whether they drag us down
- the circumstances that we might find ourselves in - sometimes of our own creation, and sometimes created by others
- our age - since the older we grow, the more vulnerable and insecure we become, whereas when we are young, we can quite strongly take on the world
- our readiness and eagerness to wake up each morning to a brand new day
- our attitude to our trials ( refer Maya Angelou's take on defeats: 'You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated')
- our approach to new things (you want to, and you're eager to try), hitherto un-thought thoughts (you want to stretch your mind, think these thoughts,), perceived barriers (you need to examine them and break them), real barriers (you can find ways of dealing with them), discouraging statements (you have to trash them)
- atmospheric/environmental (metaphorically speaking) conditions that affect us physically/emotionally/psychologically
- our fears - most imagined, some real, many influenced by imagined or real financial conditions (though, this can be wisely thought about and worked around)
- the dichotomy that sometimes plagues us - to do, or to give up, to go on, or to just lie down and die (the only thing is that death is not in our hands, so this decision may just cause untold damage and harm to us as well as those who love us and those who are around us)
You never know, but you may just end up offering succor and strength to someone who strays off their road onto yours...