"Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
John Updike, Self-Consciousness

All who wander are not lost

Where has the Old Man been? Some say he went on vacation, some say he went to Kathmandu and joined a monastery, or got lost and discovered Shangri-La, or he died at the summit of Everest.

But like Mark Twain, the stories told of his demise are an exaggeration. No, the Old Man is not dead nor lost, he is just wandering looking for the Way.