Its a brilliant reference. Anyone that has had to rely on a compass for navigation has had this question cross their mind at some point. You follow the compass and you have to trust it, which is sometimes hard to do. You think magnetic north is holding true, but is it really??? Maybe the compass became unleveled, maybe the needle got stuck, maybe there's magnetic interference, you just don't know. All you can do is stick to your bearings and hope you are heading in the right direction, not drifing farther away. And this question keeps popping up in your mind.
A metaphor, I think, for being lost, not really knowing where to go but hanging on to that glimmer of light that leads the way in hope it will deliver us home. And you hold on to that shimmering light because that's all you have got.
"Would north be true?"
Its a brilliant reference. Anyone that has had to rely on a compass for navigation has had this question cross their mind at some point. You follow the compass and you have to trust it, which is sometimes hard to do. You think magnetic north is holding true, but is it really??? Maybe the compass became unleveled, maybe the needle got stuck, maybe there's magnetic interference, you just don't know. All you can do is stick to your bearings and hope you are heading in the right direction, not drifing farther away. And this question keeps popping up in your mind.
A metaphor, I think, for being lost, not really knowing where to go but hanging on to that glimmer of light that leads the way in hope it will deliver us home. And you hold on to that shimmering light because that's all you have got.