Fork In The Road
a book in the making by Don Shapiro Ever made a choice by following your inner voice or feelings with surprising results? Share your story, read others' stories and offer comments to help discover more about how our inner wisdom works."Weekly Fork In The Road Stories"
She disobeys her family so her son can have a father
Her boyfriend walks out on her after she was five months pregnant because of his drug addiction. After separating from my husband, I met someone and started a new relationship. Our relationship progressed very quickly and I got pregnant after about 5 months. All of it came way too fast and stressed us both out. He slowly became despondent with me and took off more and more. We got into more fights and he would leave for days then come back and apologize. It wasn’t until much later after the baby was born that I ... Read MoreFork In The Road Band Takes A Lot Of Forks To Become A Band
Could all of this be a coincidence? (The following story was submitted by Dan Allen, a member of the Fork In The Road Band in Logan, Iowa. They are a country rock band. www.myspace.com/forkintheroad) Fork in the Road has both a geographic and ironic meaning to us. The obvious one is that I actually live between the forks of two highways in Logan, Iowa. The locals call it "The Fork." That's where our band practices and writes music. How we came to be a band involves a lot of fateful events, timing and locations. The guys in the band are ... Read MoreEsmerelda freezes up dealing with separation & divorce
Takes action by learning difference between instincts and inner voice
Image by xaimex via Flickr (Esmerelda is a fictitious name selected by the person who submitted this story so she remain anonymous.) When I was 19, I married my high school boyfriend. At the time, it seemed like a wonderful idea even though my parents and his parents were a little trepidatious because we were so young. That decision was made out of what seemed like the obvious thing to do. I don't remember any debate or internal voices. Life got more complex over the next few years. Fast forward to me at 28. We ... Read MoreCarolyn Finds A Path From Despair To Bliss
Photos of wrought iron gates helps open Carolyn's heart
(Carolyn Jones shared the following fork in the road story.) I fall into the category of hearing the voice, following where it took me, and discovering great beauty in myself and others. By following my bliss, I passed through the gates of my heart. I am a photographer. Several years ago, I discovered a community filled with wrought-iron entry gates. I grew to love these gates and could not stop photographing them. That is the voice I listened to initially, the one that said to keep shooting them. Drawn to their beauty, they began to represent the ways in which my heart was closed - to ... Read MoreStranded Family Saved When Derian Hears Inner Voice
Image by jonny2love via Flickr 23 year old Derian King was returning from a party one evening . A snowstorm blanketed chilly Chicago that evening and road plows had only cleared the major roads so far. At 1 AM in the morning, she stopped at a traffic light. A voice inside of her told her to turn left at the signal. She couldn’t figure out why she would be thinking such a thing since that was not the way to go home. Home was straight ahead. And she wanted to get home just as fast as possible. At ... Read MoreKelly Finds a Great Career
Image by ErikHerbert via Flickr Kelly Ketelboeter shared this story: It was 2002 and I was completely miserable in my job. Prior to this realization I didn’t see my work as a job I saw it as a career. I loved what I was doing and felt I was making an impact. That was until one fateful day when I was confronted by the CEO and the EVP along with my boss. I had been home sick with pneumonia for a week and got a call from my boss that I had to come in for an ... Read More
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Life Is A Fork In The Road by Don Shapiro is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at www.lifeisaforkintheroad.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.lifeisaforkintheroad.com.