Beyond the Map

If there had been maps for every step, a signal for every silence, a glowing dot to say— “He is here. Perhaps they would have said, “He hasn’t gone far— the path shows him resting beneath a tree. But truth does not live on a screen. For his disappearance was not an absence— it was the beginning of a deeper presence. Not all journeys are meant to be tracked, not all roads are meant to be seen. Some paths are found only when you are lost— when the world falls quiet, and the search turns inward. Because had every step been mapped and known, perhaps the silence within would never have spoken. And he would have remained just another traveler— not the one who found himself by losing the way...✍️ Jaswinder chahal