Chasing Metaphors

So in the Lion King story, there was a funny sort of miscommunication once which resulted in Timon leaving his Meerkat family, in search for Hakuna Matata. Timon's uncle told him that there is the one place a person must stay and when he relayed this to Timon's mother she wailed, cursing that her son had left home in search for a metaphor. That's what John Green readers could also relate to Looking For Alaska, which quite uncharacteristically happens to be one of my absolute favourite books. Strangely enough, Timon found it. He found Hakuna Matata. He found a home beyond what he could see. Literature, in that way is full of metaphors. We look for magic, and sparks, and vampires. Millennials are Timon. We look for things beyond what we can see, we create them, we discover them, we uncover them. We're chasing metaphors, because we aren't satisfied with plain old reality.