We tend to take the same forks over and over again, because they look familiar to us. If we remember that one fork only leads into a circle, we can easily see how our path can change. All we have to do is take the correct fork at the correct time. After awhile, what scares us about the path is how it will end. In the context of the beginning of the next thousand years, we know our time is short.
All paths end according to choices made along the way.
It helps to know there are only two real choices. There is fear, and there is love. All of us have walked the path of fear enough to know it is a dark familiar path. The path of love often begins in uninviting ways, and the path of love is sometimes steep. That is because the path of love leads us upward into light.