The Fork in the Road, the Tip of the Spear

Most people fail, listen to this in the art of living, not because they are inherently bad or so without will that they cannot lead a better life. They fail because they do not wake up and see when they stand at a fork in the road and have to decide. Take an example as drastic, as, say, an affair. One of the few things that is still kind of off limits in our sexual economy. Nobody just wakes up one morn in a happy marriage and as an affair that night. I'm sure there's one extbutr as a general rule, nobody. It's so counterintuitive. Or better, perhaps, comes alive. That sounds like jesus