You look at the signs, and sigh.
Garden Park -->
<-- Sculpture Park
Your hopes of getting out and away from work, your studies, and family isn't as fun if these signs just keep telling you how to get by in the world. You want to get lost; really, really lost...! What good is it if the maze is too easy?
A slow grin creeps across your face as you get an idea.
"You know," you say, aloud, quietly, "the path not taken is often the most interesting..."
The tight brush and bracken of the hedge maze walls is tightly woven and seemingly impenetrable. However, under examination you find that the framework of the maze is merely wooden fence posts, woven with vines that have left a seam. In fact, as you look through, you think you see another, parallel trail, just beyond the two signs.
Your grin widens.
"Fortune favors the bold," you say to yourself, and -using your hands and shoulders- push your way through the crease in the maze wall and squeeze tightly into a neighboring passageway.
The air, here, is close and claustrophobic as you find yourself in a very narrow passageway that curves along into darkness on either side. In fact, not even much sunlight seeps in, as the bushes actually form a roof over your head, some ten feet above, in a rough arch of branches and leaves. The path itself is deep with old, fallen leaves, yellowed and brown, from years of being unattended.
Could you have found a path that has gone unkempt since the maze was built?
The sounds of the distant park are muted as you chuckle at your discovery.
Well, you think to yourself, Maybe my idea of getting out of the house was a great idea, after all! Hmmmm... I wonder if I can still get to the middle of the maze?
With that, although your watch says that it's getting late in the afternoon, you head off in a direction, looking for the center of the hedge maze.