Scleroderma lung disease: "if you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there".

" If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. " It is one of my favorite sayings. It always reminds me that if you and I don't have a plan of some kind, then we will wander aimlessly toward whatever. And generally, if we have not thought out where we are going, or where we would like to go, then other people, or life circumstances, will create the way for us. I heard this catchy saying maybe twenty-five years ago and have thought about it many times. Although I did not hear it from this source, everyone seems to think it comes from a scene in Alice in Wonderland in an exchange between Alice and the Cat. Said Alice: " Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? " Said the Cat: " That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. " " I don't much care where – " said Alice. " Then it doesn't matter which way you go, " said the Cat. " – so long as I get SOMEWHERE, " Alice added as an explanation. " Oh, you're sure to do that, " said the Cat, " if you only walk long enough. " Back in the '90s, Stephen Covey taught us his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. One of his principles is, " Beginning with the end in mind. " I'll edit and paraphrase what he says: