Writing and Healing Idea #26: Figuring Out Where One is on the Map
Imagine, for a moment, that there’s a map and imagine that there are three kinds of roads one can follow on this map. There are probably a million or so roads but say, for the sake of argument, that there are three main kinds of roads. And say that they each of the roads has a name. Maybe on your map the roads have catchier names than these—you can rename them if you like—but, nonetheless, here are three types of roads you can use as a kind of starting point:
Draw the roads if you like—or begin to draw them inside your mind.
Then write about what the roads look like on your map.
Write about which ones you’ve taken.
Write about which ones you wish you could take.
Write about the signs on these roads.
Write about where each of the roads might lead.
Write about where on the map you are right now, at this moment.
(And if you’d like some company as you’re writing and imagining you can look at The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost’s preeminent poem about roads. Press play at the website page if you’d like to hear Frost himself reading the poem.)