#SixSentenceStory; Guide

Sometimes Six Sentences succumb to serious silliness. The prompt word “guide” led me to lost and wandering and Robert Frost and J.R. R. Tolkien and Dr. Seuss. So, apologies to our Six Sentence Story host Denise of GirlieOntheEdge and all those who wander here. 

Right there, where the road diverged in the yellow wood, the traveler paused, paused long enough that it was really more of a pondering and that’s when, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, (though surely somewhere), a person of diminutive stature and indiscernible age appeared, and before the traveler could ask who they were, said, ‘I am your guide’.

“Oh, well, thanks, but no thanks, for while which path to take I am trying to decide, it likely makes no difference in the end; I’ll just go my own way without a guide.”

“But that’s just it, and oh at what cost, for you would ponder on which way to wander, and as way leads to way, could become quite, quite lost— with no way back, for there’s no way you know the way!”

“Know the way where, and why should I be concerned with the way back when all I wish is to go forward to where ever it is I am going, (not yet discerned)?”

“If you know where you’ve been, you might get where you’re going, for finding the way is found in the knowing of where you are not.”

So they agreed and finally decided, the traveler would wander unlost and unguided, but with the knowledge that once arrived where, the guide would meet the traveler there.

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