The best path dilema

Life...

Strangely enough, I think a substantial amount of literature has been written on LIFE, yet science, or religion have not been able to come up with a definition to what life is, which satisfies everyone. Me, just another humble insignificant creature on this planet have my own notions of what life...

Life can be a simple graph. It consists of a series of goals we choose to pursue, and a series of paths we choose to reach the goals, and one goal from another and so on...

There is always a shortest path to a goal. Being limited creatures, we don't always know what the shortest paths are, but our instinct is quite strong in approximating the shortest path. Instinctively, we often are aware of the easiest way to get somewhere in life, or to get something done.

What we also realize that the shortest path, or the easiest way, may not be the best path to take. Often in fact, the best path is hard to find, and even harder to follow. The best path though, helps maximize the amount of goodness that comes out of us waking the path.

Being both rational and yet limited beings, we realize that it is not always possible to find, or walk the best path. And hence, we settle for paths, which is best among the once which are apparent, or visible to us at any given time. The more effort we put into finding new paths, the better are the possibilities of finding the best path.

But one has to draw a line ... when to stop looking for the best path! That is the "best path dilemma". If you have an answer...let me know!