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Ten-Word Tuesday. The Crossroads Edition

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You are looking at a card Bossy once sent to her drummer friend Ronny many years ago when he was trying to make a very difficult decision in his life — and just for the fun of it let’s have another look at Ronny, shall we?

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Anyway, back to the card:

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Back to the card: you may be surprised to learn the above is only a simulation of the actual card Bossy sent to Ronny owing to the fact Bossy doesn’t have the card because, hello, sent it to Ronny.

Maybe Bossy is getting the card a little wrong. Maybe it wasn’t your path all other options, maybe it was your road all other options, but the important part is the crossroads concept and the arrows pointing to various choices, and yes those are arrows so quit asking.

Bossy is right now standing at a similar crossroads, which is too complicated to get into at this time, where at this time means possibly ever.

But Bossy can summarize her confusion over her particular crossroads in this way: Just because there’s a window of opportunity, doesn’t mean jump.

Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you describe a time you were standing at a significant crossroads, and whether you made the right decision?

And be sure to check back later today for the crossroadiest comments on the web!

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  1. Decided to make many sacrifices so daughter can attend Montessori.

    (Just decided this last week, actually. Tortured myself over it for weeks before that. It is fully twice as expensive as our current daycare, but will be so good for her. I don’t know yet if it’s the right decision, but I feel very strongly in my HEART that it is, and really that’s all the matters, isn’t it?)

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  2. Marry man you’ve only known 12 weeks? I think yes!

    Met him on a blind date at a place called the Rock Bottom Inn, sorta married him on a dare. I’ve been married now to the Big Tuna for over 28 years.

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  9. Not comfortable saying it here. Full story over lunch. Soon?

    I miss you lady, and would love some InnerCity FaceTime. Or OuterCity. Whatever works.

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  14. Lots of times decisions aren’t ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ They’re just guidelines for what’s next. So just choose whatever sounds like fun, or is more interesting, or is the thing you haven’t done yet. Then deal. The end.

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  15. Don’t ever look back and think only if. Truth is you would never know if the other choice would have been better or worse. Just make ever opportunity a learning event and keep going. Saying that, I always think the choices I make I could not be any better–right after I have worked out the difficult obstacles and have cried a few tears.

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  16. Doubt means don’t. Don’t move. Don’t answer. Don’t rush forward.

    (Wish I could take credit for those perfect ten words ‘o’ wisdom. They come from Oprah. They are my MANTRA in times of change…)

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  38. I think I have a copy of the card you’re talking about, Bossy! Person at a fork in the road, starting down the path marked “Your life,” and the other sign says, “No longer an option.”
    (OK, so this isn’t 10 words, but I was excited. I keep a framed copy of the card on my desk. At the top it says, “Don’t look back.”)

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  39. Chose your own adventure moment: Stay in Alaska or Home?

    *SO WEIRD that this is the ten words Tuesday challenge, was JUST thinking about this like, milliseconds ago.*

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  44. Not so much leading to nowhere as leading to whatever you can make it to be…

    There is no turning back and deciding what would have been better/worse, only making the most of what you’re doing now!

    Love love love Joseph Campbell: “Follow your bliss”

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  46. Nearly passed out when I read this from ‘Angi’:
    Chose divorce. It hurt. Found a love I’ve never known.

    Same crossroads. And my name is angie, too.

    wow, not so alone. 🙂

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  58. #1: daycare quit – find new or become stay-at-home mom?
    #2: kid’s college expense looming – old career or new needing schooling?

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  72. Grad school at 35? Sure! Twins at 39? Yes!

    (Tired and grumpy and stay-at-home at 45….yes, but still happy)

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  74. My immediate thought and ten words….

    The long and winding road, that leads to your door….

    But since this isn’t a Beatles lyrics contest, my REAL ten words are:

    Wake up early, look at path choices, back to bed.

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  76. Move family of 4 across the country, sure, why not!

    (hubby and I have lived in the SF bay area our whole lives, we leave in two weeks to move to Georgia with our two little ones. So excitted but also a bit scared)

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  82. Lost a friend but gained my kids. Hard but worth it.

    Didn’t mean to fall in love. Best mistake ever.

    The best things have come out of seeing the window opening to a questionable destination and jumping anyway.

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  85. chasing happiness means it will always elude me – learning to be happy with right now.

    (someone somewhere owed me 5 words once – trust me)

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  86. Donated everything we owned, moved onto a 25 yr old RV, and hit the road NOT knowing where we were going = BEST DECISION EVER MADE. Though, in truth, I don’t believe in mistakes. I believe in Everything that happens happens for a reason so don’t try believing that your choices mean that much 😉

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  92. Sliding Doors* suggests same endpoint, different scenery along the way.

    *Great movie about diverging paths

    Beatles also said same thing:

    There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t meant to be.

    It’s easy.

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