It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal. - Cormac McCarthy

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.