Flashlights and Bon Voyage
By: Miss Adventures
The other day, I got this email from someone that I hadn’t
spoken to in quite some time. As I would expect, it was kind, and it was gentle
and it was sincere. Not really knowing how to respond to that, while wanting to
be clear about the fact that I wasn’t going to reopen old wounds, I replied
only with this:
There are some journeys in life we all have to take alone. There are roads less traveled and high roads and low roads and undiscovered roads. There are roads that lead to anger, there are roads that lead to happiness, and still other roads that lead to enlightenment. But, one thing is to be sure, no matter what road you take, there will be a myriad of emotions along the journey. It isn’t always about the road you choose, or the destination to where it leads, but most times, it’s about what we learn on the journey, who we meet along the way, who travels with us for a time and who makes us into whoever the fuck it is that we are meant to be, by simply handing us a flashlight and bidding us bon voyage. And it never makes sense when it happens, because, that’s part of the journey, but it always makes sense whenever we get to wherever it is we are going, and when we look back on the journey…we can always smile at what we learned along the way.
And maybe this is true.
Perhaps we have to take a lot of wrong turns in life before
we find the right road….or even someone who will give us a flashlight and wish
us bon voyage.
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