All That I Need to Know

Would you think it’s possible to learn all about life in one afternoon? Not even an afternoon, just two hours or so.

My three-hour labyrinth class taught me all that I need to know.

The first thing we did as the class started was to go to another room and walk a labyrinth the teacher had laid in yarn. The instructions were to keep quiet, take our shoes off, and write our reactions as soon as we completed the walk to the middle of the labyrinth and back.

The first picture below is the shape of the rope we walked. It’s a seven-ring labyrinth. The image next to it is the eleven-ring one found in many cathedrals.

Here’s what I wrote after I finished my walk:

– It’s best to keep your eye in the present instead of worrying about the future.

– Try not to worry about your sense of direction so much as it can shift.

– When you think you’re done, you’re not.

I swear these are the exact sentences I wrote as soon as I sat back down at my desk. As I stared at my writing, I noticed how similar that experience was to life itself.

A forty-dollar two-hour class taught me more about life than anything else.

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