Journeys

Roles: traveler, path, destination, obstacle, crossroads, vehicle, guide, milestone

Travel from origin to destination along a path, encountering obstacles and making choices at forks. The dominant narrative metaphor in Western culture — life, love, arguments, and careers are all journeys. Structurally rich because it provides direction (progress vs. regression), choice points (crossroads), impediments (roadblocks), and an evaluative endpoint (arrival or failure to arrive).

As Source Frame (28)

• A Problem Is a Region in a Landscape → causal-reasoning
• Argument Is a Journey → argumentation
• Beliefs Are Guides → mental-experience
• Beliefs Are Locations → mental-experience
• Change Of State Is Change Of Direction → event-structure
• Competition Is a Race → competition
• Compliance Is Following → governance
• Creating Is Moving To A Location → creative-process
• Death Is Departure → life-course
• Emotions Are Locations → mental-experience
• Event Structure (Location Case) → event-structure
• Existence Is A Location → event-structure
• Guardrails → artificial-intelligence
• Ideas Are Locations → intellectual-inquiry
• Life Is a Journey → life-course
• Linear Scales Are Paths → measurement
• Long-Term Purposeful Activity Is a Journey → event-structure
• Long-Term Purposeful Change Is a Journey → event-structure
• Love Is A Journey → love-and-relationships
• Means of Change Is Path over Which Motion Occurs → event-structure
• Necessary Prerequisite for Change Is Source of Moving Entity → event-structure
• Opportunities Are Open Paths → event-structure
• Process Fork → software-programs
• Purposes Are Destinations → event-structure
• Stages of Development → education, organizational-behavior
• States Are Locations → event-structure
• The Progress of External Events Is Forward Motion → event-structure
• Time Is a Landscape We Move Through → time-and-temporality

Applied To This Frame (2)

• mythology → Holy Grail
• mythology → Odyssey