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Not All Who Wander Are Lost

What kind of people will we become?

David Hewlett
5 min readJan 22, 2025
Photo by Nitish Meena on Unsplash.

At the end of every year, I take time to reflect on the journey so far.

Which always leads me down the same path — how did I get here? For me that’s one of the most important parts of getting older; remembering how I got to this moment and looking back on the path I’ve walked so far.

This process also reminds me that I’ve been brought out of What Was and into What Is. In this way, I am a traveler, just like you. We are all being offered movement, moment by moment and day by day, out of the parts of our stories that hold death and brokenness into new life.

In this way, being a traveler is at the core of the human experience. All living in the tension between here and there. What Was and What Is and What is To Come.

In a few months’ time World Refugee Day will once arrive on the calendar. I’ve been thinking about it for the last week or two as the day aligns closely with my summer birthday and marks the passing of another year of my story. It also reminds me that in a small way, I am also a refugee — moving out of the death that parts of life bring and in search of new life, safe from the turmoil and lament of the paths behind me.

While many, many parts of my story are different from refugees from around the…

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David Hewlett
David Hewlett

Written by David Hewlett

Storyteller, adventurer, and trampoline enthusiast who loves to ask and discover answers to the question: How can I craft the best story possible with my life?

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