I am reminded at journey's end of the G.K. Chesterton novel, Man Alive, that I found so compelling when I was my students' age. Innocent Smith is the character who goes around the world in order to find the life at home....
And, in the words of the poet Rumi:
Either this deep desire of mine
will be found on this journey,
or when I get back home.
It may be that the satisfaction I need
depends on my going away, so that when I have gone
and come back, I'll find it at home.
I will search for the Friend with all my passion
and all my energy until I learn
that I don't need to search.
If I had known the real way it was
I would have stopped all the looking around.
But that knowing depends
on the time spent looking.
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