If the Only Place We Need to Be Is Right Here Right Now, Can Anyone Really Be Lost?
You decide where you are meant to be.
Here’s the funny thing about feeling lost… you can’t be lost if you don’t have a specific place in mind you are supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the feeling of being ‘lost’ since the theme for this month’s blog hop was released by my writing community, Illuminate, and it struck me that I never get lost physically. I have a great sense of direction, I loved map reading as a child and I was always in charge of finding our way to the right train or remembering the way back. I have never questioned that aspect of myself.
I have often felt lost though. The lost I experience is within my inner world.
I remember one year when my mum went on a trip of some kind without me. She told me about the lady she had sat beside on the plane trying to explain the nature of a Piscean to her, in the hopes that she might find some insight into me. The woman explained the symbolism of two fish joined together by a string at their tail. She described it as the two sides of me always pulling in opposite directions, stopping me from traveling very far in either. But if both sides swam the same way, nothing would stop them, or me. The goal and challenge in my life would be to get my…
