Some roads appear only on maps. Others are only discovered by walking them. The Hollow Way is one of those places.
There’s a path that cuts deep into the landscape, worn by years of weather, footsteps and repetition. The trees lean inward. The light never seems quite right. Every turn reveals another beyond it. There is no clear beginning and no obvious end. Only the feeling that countless others have passed through before.
Most of us spend our lives looking for certainty.
A destination. A purpose.
A sign that we’re heading in the right direction.
Yet the older we get, the more we realise that certainty rarely arrives. We simply keep moving. One decision after another. One year after another. Following roads that make sense at the time and hoping they eventually lead somewhere worth reaching.
The Hollow Way sits somewhere between those ideas.
Part place. Part state of mind.
The stretch of road between who we are and who we hoped we might become.
Not every journey is dramatic. Not every revelation arrives with a flash of lightning. More often, life unfolds quietly. Through missed opportunities. Hard lessons and small victories. Debts repaid and debts carried. The weight of choices made long ago and the consequences that follow behind them.
The roads in Garrow Hill are rarely straight.
They wind through old memories, bad decisions, half-truths and unanswered questions. Through places where people carry more than they show and where the past is never quite as distant as it first appears.
The Hollow Way belongs there too.
Not as a warning. Not as a destination.
But as a reminder that uncertainty is something we all share.
Perhaps that’s why the path feels familiar.
Because somewhere along the line, we’ve all walked it.
And whether it leads forwards or backwards is often impossible to tell until much later.
For now, it remains what it has always been.
A road disappearing into the distance.
And the choice to keep walking.
Some things stay buried. Some things find their way back.
Stay close.
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