6.7 The Way Out of The Wilderness.

The only way out of the Wilderness is the Wilderness. 

In wilderness camping, there is a point where you break camp and walk out. You tear the camp down and you walk out; home. But you walk home in the wilderness.

Philosopher Steven Wright said he named his dog Stay. But the dog would get confused when he would call him: “Come here, Stay.”  

Learn to love the ambiguity in disorientation and new orientation. “Any direction is a turning back,” said Winston George. "Sometimes the light's all shining on me, other times I can barely see, lately, it occurs to me, what a long strange trip it's been," said The Hunter. 

One day you discover that the only way out of the wilderness is the wilderness, more wilderness. There is no end in sight to the journey, but there is a journey’s end -- an end as in a purpose. That purpose is to discover that you do not travel alone, even though “our paths divide straight ahead.” But is this a departure or just the convergence of intersecting trajectories at the vanishing point? 

The goals we had thought we had set, the dreams we may have dreamed, have dissolved away into the singularity of the north star. "You did not come this far, to only come this far." So then, camerado, find inexpressible joy on your journey and thirst for a way to express it.