Starting out I was lost, I never knew where to go or which way to turn. After bad decisions and a number of failures I became convinced life was a maze. A huge, complex maze but a maze to be solved nonetheless. Once you know you are in a maze however, it isn’t such a challenge, you start thinking about the problem like it has a solution. I’m in a maze I will make choices to solve this maze, you think. Carefully look left and right, weigh your decisions and head toward your goal. I was vigilant, I was alert and I was focused, life would not defeat me, I would conquer it. However the more I progressed the clearer things became. There were no hidden passages, no different paths. Success did not flow from choice but from perseverance. My decisions were illusions, the only thing that worked was persistence. So I trudged on. And on. Forever round corners, another birthday another corner. Still I pushed on. Only when I reached the centre, a dead end, did I see life for what it is, a Labyrinth. Without the energy to return to my beginnings, finally I lay down to rest.
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