Day 21 – The Expectations and Realities of Life

Published: April 16, 2016, 2:15 p.m.

On our Trek today, we want to explore the difference between the expectations and realities of life. With most mountainous hiking trips, when you start out the trail is smooth and wide, and we think, "Wow! This is going to be easy."

In the same manner, as we start into adulthood we know so much about life we feel that we have it all together, and our parents and older associates have missed the boat somehow.

We plan out our lives with dreams and ambitions, and we feel that the road to success will be typically smooth. And then, life gets in the way. We get busy living life, and the years just rush by. And, before you know it, you are in your 50s and 60s and you wonder, "What just happened?"