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What does it mean?
The speaker accepts that life is difficult but remains open to future meaning.
In plain terms
Life might hurt you but I will keep going until I find where I am going.
What can you take from it?
Enduring hardship with hope for eventual clarity.

Where it applies

  • recovering from loss
  • starting over
  • seeking purpose

Putting it to work

  • keeping going
  • finding purpose
  • managing expectations

Questions to consider

  • Where do you think you are going?
  • How do you handle heartbreak?

Another view

Hope without direction can sometimes feel like aimless wandering.

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