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They never did make it back from their destination. Not for lack of trying. Not for lack of plans. Not even for lack of courage or stamina or all the things that make a journey circular. There and back again. Like Bilbo Baggins looking for an adventure and finding more than he had bargained for (or perhaps precisely what he needed); they, too, found more along the way than they had intended.
The path slowed everything. Time turned to stone.
And when it was over, said and done, it was a time and there was never enough of it.
They took too long.
So much that life passed by before it could lead them back to where they had come from.
Perhaps where they ended was precisely where they needed to go.
Only that unlike Bilbo, they did not return to their Bag End.
(Prompt: from “A Time” by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke)
For the dVerse Prosery Challenge: A Time
Na'ama Yehuda 
Na’ama Y’karah,
Love the tie in between Bilbo Baggins and Bag End. Clever. Time…there never is enough of it, is there?
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you ….
As for time, so true … it is never quite enough, is it? And sometimes we’re a bit more acutely aware of it than other times …
xoxo
Na’ama
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This is a very creative comparison. Love your story and your play on words.
Dwight
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Thank you, Dwight! I’m so happy you liked it!
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Thank you for reminding me of Bilbo and Bag End, a place I haven’t returned to in years. I must go back there sometime soon – I need an adventure – although it might not be the same this time around – I might have taken too long.
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Ah … an adventure! 😉
You never know what it will be when you go outside your door … 😉
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Love this analogy. Beautifully penned, thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it an thanks for reading and commenting!
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My pleasure.
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🙂
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Clever, Na’ama! (Even though I’m totally ignorant of anything Hobbit-related.). There’s sort of a timeless and absurdist feel to this, too. Even though they were moving, and not waiting, it made me think a bit of Waiting for Godot.
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I’m glad you liked it! Well, not EVERYONE can know about The Hobbit or LOTR … – hard to imagine, but then there are those things I know nothing about and others know every detail of … so I know such black holes happen … ;)) Movement is an interesting thing, isn’t it? Sometimes you make progress, and sometimes it is like in a rocking chair -lotta movement, zero progress … 😉
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I remember trying to read one of the books when I was a teen, and I just couldn’t get into it. I’m sure the movies are good, I just never got around to seeing any of them. 😏
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Life’s too short to try and do everything just because others do them – you do YOU and no guilt (as long as you read my stuff, of course … ;)). Deal?
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Hahaha. I’ll do my best to try to keep up with you!
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Yay (just teasing, you know … I really DO believe we each have to find the balance that works for us, and that there’s no place for shaming or guilting anyone into doing more than what works for them, just because we think it ought to work for them on our behalf …) 😉
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That’s an excellent tie-in, and an acute observation… one might say warning… on life. It is not the destination, it is the journey
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Yes! Exactly! You got it! 🙂
And I’m glad you liked it …
Here’s to journeys well taken, and lived.
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Indeed!
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The image and prose work well together …. nice.
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Thank you, Helen! 🙂 I’m glad to hear it! 🙂 Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! 🙂
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Oh wonderfully done! FanFic taken to a whole ‘nother level!
You so good at dis.
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OOOOOOOOh, me so pleased that you liked it this way! 🙂 And, me blushing with the compliment. 🙂 Takes one to know one, ya know …
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Reminds me we are sometimes so preoccupied with our destination we miss the best parts of life. I’m not a Hobbit person, and had to research just who Bilbo was! Thank you for the mental stimulation.
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Yes, indeed, sometimes the details get lost in the process, when the details are part of the process we can enjoy in the NOW …
I’m glad you checked out Bilbo Baggins … 😉 How fun that you took the time even though the association wasn’t immediately something you knew of! I tend to do that, too, when I see something that I don’t recognize but seems to have importance to the writer — and I’ve learned so many interesting tidbits this way! Here’s to keeping our noggin humming … 😉
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Wonderful take on the prompt, Na’ama. And great use of time; yours in writing this, mine in reading it. 🙂
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What a fun comment! 🙂
I’m glad we both had a good time … 😉
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I wonder how many that think that they know where the end will take them… and maybe just like Bilbo Baggins they have to break up even after returning.
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Yes, I think most of us have the illusion of knowing where we’d end, though in reality, we can plan and hope and think and wonder, but life may or may not take is where we think we want to go …
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