Somewhere along this year I lost myself. 

I was so sure of where I was going all thoughtout the year, then all of a suddent I took a turn and ended up in the forest. 

You see I have never spent time in the forest and I wasn't prepared for the adventure. 

I didn't have a compass or a map.  All I had were my thoughts. 

What if I never found a way out? What if I was doomed to wonder aimlessly and alone?  What if this was it and that's where my so call adventure came to end?  What was I to do?

What to do? Do I give up or keep going?

Do I walk towards the path that seem to be in the distance or did I venture deeper into the forest and begin a new adventure. 

Well like any person that's lost I looked towards the path. It's there and it seemed reliable, right?

As I wonder aimlessly, I found that straying from the path lead me to an adventure.

So I slowly took to the new adventure and picked up some skills, I begin to learn and felt accomplished. 

Yet, there were times that doubt set in and it would tell me that no matter what I learned I would never escape the forest which help me prisoner.

I was no longer lost, but scared and trapped. 

As the days when by I keep developing a skill I realized that i could make it out of the forest and I could use my skills to create a new path.

I'm not so lost now and I have begun to build a new path.  The forest will always be there and it will either allow me to explore and have an adventure or lead me down a path that has no growth.