In Part 1 I talked about going where you are getting using maps as guides, in a very loose, metaphorical-because-I-am-really-talking-about-life manner. In your own way, using your own directions, eventually arriving. Or not…
But, what happens if you find yourself on some map and really don't know where your destination lies? You may have forgotten it, or perhaps you've decided, as you’ve progressed, you no longer wish to go there. What then? How do you decide in which direction to head? This is the most important thing to know about your metaphorical GPS; it doesn't matter which way you go! Like a video game map that renders itself before you as you proceed, so the map of your journey to any destination doesn't really exist until you have traveled it. Begin and it appears. Get driving, feel the wind in your face and you will know you are moving, and movement is what is paramount here.
In fact, the more lost you feel you are, the more important is your movement, the more important for you to feel the wind on your face, in your hair, reminding you that you are alive and going in a direction. Any direction.
Motion along this uncharted and undefined route is like driving along a map all of whose labels have been removed. You may be confused, but remember that the longer you drive the more you learn. Again, as in a video game world, one which requires you to learn map details as you go, following any road at all teaches you more about the world you live in and more about how you experience that world. The trip is pure experience untainted with shoulds and oughts. You won't know what you are experiencing until you pass through it, but after you do you will know so much more and be better able to place yourself within this map.
Movement is how we learn. About the world. About ourselves. About our place in the world. We draw the map as we go, discovering new destinations as we go, if we need to, recalculating, feeling the wind in our face to tell us we are alive.
