“He stood still. All he could hear was the rain. So intent on making his way along this supposed path that now he’d lost her. Surely he had lost the path too, if there had ever been one. He called out again, a confident, no-nonsense call, no reason to get excited. He got no reply, but just then saw between two trees a true path, quite patent, an easy winding way.”

-from the fantasy novel "Little, Big"

As I was reading over my essay, I realize that this quote can actually speak to something or someone happening in my life right now. Quite true. Quite real.