Choices

It sometimes happens that just when you think you have a plan, something gets in the way.
It's like walking round the corner of your house and discovering that the road and view you are used to, have been completely replaced by something startlingly different and unknown.

At first it might seem scary, with everything familiar having been wiped away unexpectedly. Then it could become very frustrating when you realise that what you wanted to do, or where you wanted to go, no longer appears in front of you. No matter that there is now expanse, beauty and freedom instead; that may not seem relevant in the circumstances. You might freeze, unsure what to do next. You might start running, in panic about what has happened. And if you don't understand it and think you can't, you might become disheartened and give up, sitting down right where you are, hoping that someone will either wake you from a bad dream or come to tell you what is going on. But what if they don't?

Sitting there, you might close your eyes and start imagining that you are hemmed in, and are too frightened to pass through the darkness of it; or you might even start thinking that there is no road left to you at all and that you are in imminent danger with no future left to you.

But most of the time it is simply an opportunity to look at things in a novel way. Whether the change is inherently beneficial or not, it is a good time to check out the initial goal again, the original path being followed to get to it, and assess the choices available at this point. Very often, on closer inspection, there is another way to get to the goal, and sometimes it turns out to be a stepping stone to an even better solution than the old one.
Once a decision is made and a path forward chosen, the situation is often resolved. The familiar road may even reappear and, on closer inspection, may contain greater advantages than it did before.