Analogies of life

Assalam Alaikum!

Have you ever had those times where you're alone and you're just going on in life like normal when suddenly, you see something and it turns into an analogy? Let me further elaborate.

There were times when I was younger, walking home with my family from school. I walked much faster than them so I was often in the lead. Sometimes, there were trees in the way and I would go around it from one side and they would on the other. Bang! An anology formed just like that. For me, I pictured this being the separation between me and my family but we'd be reunited every time we came back after the short separation.
Funny things is they actually happened, more or less the way I thought of them. there were physical separations and mental separations. One where I physically left them or when I felt like I wasn't apart of them.

I'm not claiming anything people! Anyone can make weird connections.

Recently, I had to find a certain place and all I had were my distant memories of the place and a map I got from online. I followed the instructions but then there was a dead end, or so I thought. I was on the street I needed to be on to get to last and final one, but there were no signs.  That street was very small and at the end there was a building.  Picture, a T shaped road. At the top there was a horizontal road and a building lining it. I was at the bottom of the vertical part of the road which connected with the horizontal one. Because there were no signs, no numbers and I felt as though I came to a dead end. I turned left instead of heading straight and found another road I never saw before.  That's when I pulled out my phone for it's GPS, which was really horrible, and it didn't help me. I started walking around searching for the number of the building I was looking for and the street.

From then on I spotted a street I recognized and went towards it, which happened to be the wrong way. In this whole journey, I ended up having to turn around and go back twice.

Finally I found the street, then the building and went in. When I came back out,  I was looking onto a short street in front of me. It was familiar. it was the street I doubted initially because I thought it was a dead end and the building I had seen then was the one I was looking for all along. This time I was on the top of the T shaped road. where the horizontal road was.

Here's where my analogy came in, I pictured the map being the guidance of Allah. I followed it up to where I had to be but when I lost sight of the sign, I doubted my instructions even though they had guided me so far.I couldn't see the sign but, that was the street I was looking for.  I made things harder for myself by taking the longer way and wasting more energy and effort.