If you don’t know what you want in a friend, same thing. If you don’t know where you’re going to dinner, any road will get you there. If you don’t know what you want to be when you grow up, any road will get you there. What direction are you interested in taking your life? Pick an aspect of your life and apply the saying. Without direction, without a destination, without a goal, how do you pick a direction, choose a road, or plot a course to get “there”? You can never get “there,” can never arrive anywhere, because you don’t really have a destination. Not having a direction, not having a goal, not knowing where you are going, it’s all the same. Any road will get you to where you want to go. Where are you going? Until you can answer that question, you can’t say that any one route is better than another. Or more specifically, having a direction. How can you pick a road to somewhere when you don’t know where you are going? How do you get “there” when you don’t know or don’t care where “there” is?
Well, the paraphrasing that is so often quoted is a pretty good summary the exchange between Alice and the Cheshire Cat.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.” “–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” – Lewis Carrollīut this line is not in the Alice in Wonderland books. By philosiblog on 13 July 2011 in clarity, decision, direction, goals, motivation, vision If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.
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