Edward Hopper Could Not Paint This One
---- Big Frank Dickinson

- So I see it this way, I'm on this journey.
- Journey as life? Isn't that a cliche?
- No really life is a kind of journey isn't it?
- No really, when you try to encapsulate life in a cliche you learn nothing.
- Seriously, I mean, it's not the destination it's the journey.
- What the hell does that mean - journey as life?
- You know, you are going some place and not really getting there.
- What kind of a journey is that to go somewhere that you never arrive at?
- But isn't that what life is really all about - the journey?
- Can't you find another metaphor or at least another lexical item than "journey"?
- Don't you get it; it's like you are on this road and you need to look around.
- Who doesn't do that? Everybody looks around.
- No, I mean like when you are thinking all the time about the end of the road.
- Well, yeah, if you have an important appointment or are late to work, then you're not looking that much.
- But you should look - it's not about getting there after all.
- What do you mean it's not about getting there; you have to get there don't you?
- OK, yeah, but you don't have to think about getting there do you.
- You mean you are on autopilot and you know the road so well that you will get there anyway?
- Sort of - OK, let's say that you have it all mapped out and so you don't have to think about that.
- But that's not like life is it? I mean who has it all mapped out? Nobody.
- Yeah, but that's life; I'm talking about the journey, you know, the road and all.
- But wasn't that supposed to be like life, I mean it's supposed to be a metaphor - one thing represents the other.
- It does - life as journey, but not exactly. The journey has an end.
- Doesn't have to - there are some people who take off with no destination in mind.
- That would really be like life; OK - let's say it's a journey with no destination.
- But in that case there would be no temptation to not look around. There is no destination to obsess on is there.
- No, I guess not. So there you go - life as journey.
- Oh, OK - I guess that makes senses now; yeah.
- So, anyway, I was thinking: life really is like a journey isn't it?
- Yeah, but one without any destination, right?
- Oh, Ok that kind of journey, sure.