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User Profile: LisaLette
LisaLette October 5th, 2024

Sometimes pick routes that we know are dead ends?

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User Profile: Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Sunisshiningandsoareyou October 5th, 2024

@LisaLette

Oh that is quite thought-provoking. :0

Perhaps because the "routes" are familiar. And familiarity, no matter how uncomfortable or difficult of an experience, somehow still seems to make us "belong", a longing most of us hoomans have, to belong!

What do you think? ^_^

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User Profile: CyclingThroughLife
CyclingThroughLife October 5th, 2024

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

I would add "easy" to the familiar.....to me an "easy" route means less stressful and more peace in my life....

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User Profile: Phoenixthepoised
Phoenixthepoised October 5th, 2024

@LisaLette

Isn’t it funny how we sometimes wander down paths we know are dead ends?

It’s like a little adventure with curiosity nudging us to see what’s around the corner! 

User Profile: BrynElea
BrynElea October 5th, 2024

There's something about the route that we like. A lot. And perhaps in the back of our mind, we hope to find a hidden passage to atlantis

User Profile: jacek73
jacek73 October 5th, 2024

@LisaLette I used to think of life as a road, now I think it's closer to a labirynth. There are not many ways which lead to the target. There are some 'short dead ends' - the paths we should not take at all. And there are some 'long dead ends' - the paths we may follow, but only for a limited time (a few years or months).

Experience is what we gain on the way. Because the road straight to the target would teach us nothing.

Also, not always we learn from our mistakes. It sometimes takes some repeats of them to gain energy to break from the magic circle.

User Profile: genericbeing
genericbeing October 6th, 2024

@LisaLette I pick routes that go by cool old abandoned builds or ice cream shops

User Profile: Ernestina
Ernestina October 6th, 2024

Also because at the time, we couldn’t see that as a dead end. Hindsight being 20/20. And also, our fear of failure and sometimes even fear of success causes us to take the path our self esteem, at the time, tells us is all we can handle.

User Profile: ConfusedHooman21
ConfusedHooman21 October 6th, 2024

@LisaLette because nothing else to do in life...

User Profile: Archangel4ever
Archangel4ever October 6th, 2024

What if you don’t know for sure that the route is a deep end? After all, looks can be deceiving. Sometimes you love the route enough to want to explore it’s potential 

User Profile: searchingSoul01
searchingSoul01 October 7th, 2024

Maybe to know what's after it or we simply love the route even though we know it will end we still want to travel