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Despite the fact that we had come on this trip together—even if it was only a two-day trip—I felt as if the person moving steadily away from me, Sensei, was a stranger.
Hiromi Kawakami • Strange Weather in Tokyo: A Novel
Nonomiya at home, but he took the wrong street near the Ochiai crematorium and ended up at Takata. He took the train home from Mejiro.
Natsume Soseki • Sanshiro (Penguin Classics)
Traveler, there is no path
By Antonio Machado
Traveler, your footprints
Are the path and nothing more;
Traveler, there is no path,
The path is made by walking.
By walking the path is made
And when you look back
You’ll see a road
Never to be trodden again.
Traveler, there is no path,
Only trails across the sea…
It seems that to find the real path we have to go off the path we are now on, even for an instant, and earn the privilege of losing our way.
David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
fygophobia n. the fear that your connections with people will keep dwindling as you get older; that one by one, you’ll all go flying off the merry-go-round in wildly different directions, sailing through various classes and jobs and interests, ultimately landing in far-flung neighborhoods where you’ll hunker down with your families plus a handful o
... See moreJohn Koenig • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
– Joan Didion
Lost Touch
But desire lines may also be evidence of something more than pure practicality. The casual disobedience of a desire path as an alternative to the formally prescribed walkway is remarkable simply as a human choice, willfully out of step with the way things are.