What do you get out of your path?

[Charles]

I figured now would be a good time to open up the lounge for a little relaxing conversation. Today's topic. What do you get out of your path?

Now I'm not asking for people to debate paths, or the Jedi Path in particular, I'm asking that if your feeling up for it to share with everyone what it is you get out of the path you walk. It may be Jedi, Partial Jedi, Jedi Inspired, or Completely Unrelated. It may be some hybrid path. The question is what do you get out of the path you walk, how does it enrich your life, and what does it help you achieve?

[Ro-Ha Til'leto]

Just to clarify, are you asking which path we follow, what that path entails and what benefits we receive from it?

[Charles]

Pretty much.

[Ro-Ha Til'leto]

At the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the things I've accomplished so far. I guess that's what I get out of my path: satisfaction.

[Andy]

I cant get no satisfaction, though i try, and i try, and i try.

What i do get is a direction. I find it gives my training a purpose and an end result when i know what i strive toward.

[Mindas Arran]

Peace of mind.

[Inari]

It helps to keep me true to who I want to be. With my particular circumstances, it can be all too easy to get caught up in what everyone else wants me to be and do. My commitment to the Jedi path is something that I do for myself though, and keeps me heading in the direction I want to go in, not that which everyone else wants.

[RyuJin]

for me....i'd have to say a sense of calm, a sense of control over myself, and a sense of redemption for when i was very young (long before becoming jedi)

[Ke-Yail Kroy]

My path... I feel my path will (and does) benefit me in that I do find peace and tranquility. I feel like my Jedi path will allow me to fullfill my destiny - to be the person that I want to be. But what I enjoy most about my path... what intrigues me the most... is that if I follow the path that is laid before me... if I stay on it... there is the potential for many many people, thousands in not millions, to profit and prosper from it. Maybe that sounds a little strange but I forsee myself in a postion of power and influence (not control tho) that will allow me to make life better for people on a very large scale. This is what my path leads to. I believe we all have this potential - to make this world a better place.

[Charles]

When I look in the mirror at the end of the day, I see someone I'm proud of. When I train hard, I go to bed, and I sleep peacefully knowing I've done all I can to make myself that much better.

[Angelus]

The path makes me better than I am. It pushes me beyond my "perceived" limitations to realize that I really could do more.

While at first I thought myself having poor hand-eye coordiation, training in the martial arts shows that I only needed to improve my balance and confidence. Originally I was very shy and reserved. Now I find that I can approach people and be more forth coming with my thoughts. My compassion used to drain me as I felt people's pain. Now, that compassion has been channeled to fight for justice which is now a motivating factor in my life.

Given the above examples, I often find myself saying that the person I look up to most is myself...or more accurately the me that I can achieve....the better me.

[Darth Jediforever!]

well... my path is more-so on the dark side, yes i believe in the dark side. But my path leads me to search for the deep answers to life and the universe.

[SilverMoonfire]

Great sence of peace, being, and harmoney to presurve life.

[Zaron]

peace and knowing that I am doing something anything to help other people even besides my lack of pysical skill.

[Manu]

Power! unlimited power!

Seriously, to me the jedi path is one of looking deep into the shadows of one's being, tearing down the foundations of dogma, and waking up to a new reality: free, powerful, alive.