Fuckin' mazes and their metaphorical resonances...

We went to this corn maze yesterday...

I kept remembering that scene on Gilmore Girls, when Logan and Rory have to choose a path and they decide to take one together (except for NOT REALLY).

We were all just wandering, knowing there was a way to make it through, a pre-established set of clues that we needed to follow in order to find this suposedly super cool bridge that was inside the maze, and afterwards we would figure our way out of it.

We never made it to the bridge. We got so lost that we decided to take a shortcut, call it off and go home. It was getting pretty dark after all.

I've read about so many metaphorical mazes and labyriths (if there's any difference between the two) that now it is almost impossible for me not to think of them as something else than what they actually are...

There's Harry, who found himself trapped in a maze that would only lead him to his ultimate fears...
There's Alaska, who always wanted to find a way out of the labyrinth and never did...not the right way anyhow...or was it the right way for her?
There's this Maze Runner who I have no idea what he does or why he lives in a maze, cause I haven't read that book...
There's Borges who likes to play riddles in his books, and makes you so confused that you just want to get the hell out of his narrative, but you can't give up until you figure it out...sort of.

So, in MY labyrinth there WAS a proper way to do things and get successfully to the end, but people kept making shortcuts and we kept following them because it was easier. I mean, we made it from clue #5 to #9 thanks to this little trick.
It kind of takes away the fun of it. You cut it short and will never be sure that you got to see all that you were supposed to see, or did all you were supposed to do, or got right all the answers you needed to complete the task.
I'll never know how the bridge looks like, or what the rest of the questions were and if I would've been able to answer them.

Am I capable of completing MY task here? will I get to see all I'm supposed to see and do ALL I'm supposed to do before I can see my way out? Is there an actual "right way" to do these things? do I get clues or should I just create my own path as I want it to be, with no clue whatsoever? Can I just get out and go home if it starts to look too dark for me?

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