Just about anyone can follow a path,
but they who always tread upon someone else's path
seldom leave footprints,
for footprints are evidence of walking off the pre-existing paths
and into the unknown or unexplored
and then returning
to some communal, common path
to share what was found.

We musn't assume that the paths
are the only viable thoroughfares,
literally as well as figuratively:

The
path that's
suggested
is not the only
path that one can take:
one must find
one's own
path.