There comes a time in a person's life when you ask yourself, 'What's it all about?' 'What am I doing here?', 'Where am I going?'
It certainly happened to me. I have clear recollections of raising these questions with friends and family years ago and getting back blank or quizzical looks, as if I'd either gone bonkers or had personally offended them.
Nonetheless I continued dabbling away trying to find the answers. I looked here and I looked there for them, sometimes catching fleeting glances of something more than my little, dissatisfying life. However, these tantalizing glimpses didn't last long and my smorgasbord approach to self discovery wasn't taking me anywhere.
After a number of years of experimenting and searching, the penny finally dropped that there are no pink pills capable of producing instant enlightenment and that the roads to self discovery can be long and have many twists and turns.
'Self Discovery' is a short story about a man who explored a couple of paths hoping that the doors to enlightenment would open - with hilarious results.
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