the rainbow problem ◉

someone wrote that meaning is like the gold at the end of a rainbow — you can never actually reach it, because it moves as you move. the closer you walk, the further it recedes. and i keep turning that over because it reframes the whole project. if meaning isn’t a destination but a distance — always exactly as far away as when you started — then the people who seem most “fulfilled” aren’t the ones who arrived somewhere. they’re the ones who stopped measuring the gap. they just… walk. and somewhere along the way the walking itself became the thing they were looking for, without them noticing the moment it switched. which makes me wonder if noticing is actually the enemy here. if the act of asking “have i found it yet?” is precisely what resets the distance back to zero.