Ok, I’m messing with you. Of course you don’t have it figured out. You don’t have a life plan because determining what’s going to happen half a century from now is just, well… crazy.

Life is more like a circle than a line. If you travel along far enough you’ll see that the path you’re on is a very long curve, like the surface of the earth, and not a straight and endless road at all. Go along it for a really long time and you’ll find that you recognize some of the surroundings, because you’ve made a complete circle and come back to where you started. This isn’t a bad thing, as if there’s no progress in life or that we’re meant to spin in circles, it just means that our lives have a rhythm, a sense of cycle, that often will bring us back to a familiar place.

For me, I found that my journey did indeed bring me to a familiar place. It was a place I had known all along and that really I brought with me wherever I went. Just like if you are in a very large maze and you unwind a spool of thread as you go through it, eventually you’ll find the places you’ve been when you turn a corner and see the thread you left there before.