Sometimes you wish life would take you on a straight clear certain path. And you wonder, looking around you, why you should be the one to always have to take a circuitous route? Not to say that I believe I am the only one having to do it. In fact some people probably meet dead ends or never ever find the road even. So no. I am not more hard done by than others but like someone famous said, it is our own troubles that we feel the most. It does not matter who else is going through a fire, the pin that pricks you would seem more painful. It is what you are sensing and feeling and undergoing and experiencing and what not. So it does make sense for me to ask this question, why am I always being sent around a bend just when I feel like I could have been put on the straighter road? I feel like giving up the journey or the effort altogether momentarily, and then I remind myself that I managed to reach this point through all sorts of circuitous roads. It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t quick, it wasn’t painless, it was long and hard… but… maybe the point is not to reach the ultimate destination. Maybe the point is to experience this roundabout journey, to experience the difficult twists and turns but to also experience growth in a sense, to experience experiences that would never be available to me on the straight roads. And when I think about it… it is these experiences that really enter into who I am and what I put into my ultimate goals… without these experiences, I wouldn’t really have had anything to say, I wouldn’t really be able to empathise with the experiences of the less fortunate… it is being and walking in those shoes myself that equips me in a way… to see life as so many do… had I always taken the straight path, I might have perhaps been in a much better place, with a much better view… but I doubt I would have the same eyes… and isn’t it the eyes that really make a difference to how well you appreciate the view?