"The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My most recent experiences have been a clear illumination: that I have lived, am living, and will likely always live, a labyrinthine life, snaking through passages that twist and turn and blindside and lead me insanely away -- and to -- everything and nothing I expect.

I guess the Universe is giving me exactly what I need, fulfilling some unconscious request; after all, the boredom of a linear life would probably kill me.