The road to nowhere

There is a saying, “it’s about the journey, not the destination.” If, like many others, you have embarked upon your journey of self-discovery then consider that even your journey of self-discovery has an objective of well, self-discovery. So, even that road to nowhere actually goes somewhere.

The more I indulge in esoteric meanderings the more I sense that my path does have an end point for if it doesn’t then why begin a journey? Even if you experience that nomadic restlessly that beckons you into the night the destination is actually a point of self-discovery, heightened awareness, peace of mind, union with source or some variation on a theme.

The very notion of the word SEARCH implies that there is a FOUND.

The lyrics of this classic tune by Talking Heads commence with, “Well we know where going, but we don’t know where we’ve been.” David Byrne, I’m feeling ripped off. I want to go on a road to nowhere, like dude, the journey. I nearly wrote the journey till the end of time but that’s got a destination too.   

So, maybe the metaphoric journey isn’t a place in space or time. What about the journey of self-discovery? OK, it’s not a place and maybe I won’t even know what it looks like when I’m there, but THERE is a place, isn’t it? Can anyone else hear “an echo … an echo?” Oh look, there’s a rabbit hole. “Alice, is that you?” “Where’s your muchness?”

So, if we are searching for something, maybe that missing piece, then we still have a destination and the road DOES have a somewhere., maybe it’s over the rainbow?

Or, maybe the illusory search on the road to nowhere ends right where it begins - that place called home. Just as it did with Alice, and Dorothy, and others. Home is where the heart is, and when we come full circle (actually its more an upward spiral than a circle) only then we that restlessly subside. So, if you are on your path and feeling like you are going nowhere well relax my friend, your journey will come full circle and when you arrive you will not be you anymore. Perhaps it’s fitting that David Byrne wrote a song called “Home.” 

May you find that place in your heart called home and may I be at your doorstep to greet you.