Soulshine

“I learned through weaknesses And through the web of your lies That everyday I live Another piece of me dies And in the black and white I found a need to move on To find a road of gold A throne to live upon.” Cause & Effect, It’s Over Now (1994) Sometimes we have to be careful when we feel the need to find that “road of gold.” Is it really a “need” to grow more fully into who we are, or is it a “compulsion” to escape from life—and primarily to escape from ourselves? I often feel trapped or stuck. Suddenly I’m not happy with my career, with the work I’m doing, with my surroundings or with the people in my life. I long to trash it all, to pick myself up and to travel down that road of gold. I tell myself I could flourish so much more in California ; in Los Angeles , San Diego or San Francisco . I’d be free—free to be me, free to enjoy life, free to be more fully creative. And that may all be true. Or it may be that I am simply wanting to escape fro...