Why Pick Up the Fork in the Road?

     “If you come to a fork in the road, pick it up,” baseball great Yogi Berra said. I’ve pondered this wisdom through the years as we moved to new cities where new jobs and new neighborhoods brought new choices - forks in the road.
     Today with COVID, sometimes I feel like choice has disappeared and I’m trapped in an eternal waiting room. Waiting to give hugs to family members. Waiting to see friends. Waiting to shop and travel freely. Waiting for life to begin again. I don’t see forks in the road, only blockades.
     But perhaps I’m missing some opportunities - the forks in the road I can pick up. Like calling a friend. Or sending a card to someone who crosses my mind. Or even cleaning the smudges off the refrigerator.
     I don’t have to wait for the future for opportunities. The future is the next moment TODAY.