A walk in the snow.

Architect Frank Lloyed Webber told of a lecture he received at the age of nine helped set his philosophy of life. An uncle, a stolid, no-nonsense type, had taken him for a long walk across a snow-covered field. At the far side, his uncle told him to look back at their two sets of tracks. ‘See my boy,’ he said, ‘how your foot prints go aimlessly back and forth from those tress, over to the cattle, back to the fence and over there where you were throwing sticks.’ But notice how my tracks come straight across, directly to my goal. You should never forget this lesson.’
And he never did, Wright said grinning, I decided right then not to miss most things in life, as my uncle had.

(John Keasler, Everyday Greatness)