Many Pathways

In your path of life, you sometimes encounter a cross-section, or a path that divides in different ways. How do you decide which way to take? How do you know which one is the right path?

Do you sometimes have to retrace your steps and go back to a past time where two paths crossed and take the other one. Robert Frost said that he took the road less traveled by, and many people have repeated this, but, if many people travel through the "less-traveled" road, wouldn't this turn to the common road???

I'm really just rambling here.
Pathways.... what do they mean?
Pathway to your career, pathway to your life, to romance, to happiness, to virtue ....

What IS a PATHWAY!!?!?!?

Path... defined as a "way"
way... defined as a "direction"

There is not a precise definition for a pathway... perhaps is some sort of road that leads to who knows where. Maybe we carve our own pathways, we make our own path.

Synonyms... footpath... leaving foot prints behind and creating a sort of route.

Whose footpath do I follow?
Nobody's. I shall make my own but, which way do I travel??

Which road do I take? Where do I go from here??