Choices and thoughts

Oh ye’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road,
An’ I’ll be in Scotland before ye’,
But woe is my heart until we meet again
On the Bonnie, bonnie banks O’ Loch Lomond.

What am I doing, with a wee Scottish verse in this article?

Well, it’s the first line only that’s appropriate really; the whole
song is a traditional Scottish folk song from hundreds of years
ago.

But the first line came into my head the other day, and it
reminded me of choosing between thinking richly (taking
the high road) and thinking poorly (the low road).

Either way you may end up in the destination
you’re going to. But for sure if you take the high road you will.

It’s just a choice — at any given point in your thinking about
any situation, you can choose to think poorly or to think richly.
So long as you know the difference between them, and that
comes with practice, AND you catch yourself at the moment
of having a choice, then you can take a conscious decision
to go down the ‘high road’ or the ‘low road’.

Well, it’s easy to say all this just like that, and it’s much harder to
put it into practice — but I can vouch for it from my own experience
and that of others that, just like learning to drive a car, it
becomes easier and easier until choosing to think richly
is just the thing you do.

So — what road do you prefer taking?

Jane