Coming Or Going

I'm not really sure how these two things fit together, but it probably has something to do with me not knowing if I'm coming or going:

1) We were at our second meeting for families with messed up kids on drugs and the therapist kept using hack metaphors like "you're on a rollercoaster ride" and "it's going to be a long, bumpy road" to describe the treatment program and what we were likely in for these next few months, and I just lost it and blurted out, "Where do you think we've all been before we needed to come here?"

2) I was reading The Times yesterday morning and after finally making peace with those fuckers for folding Sports into the Business section, I turned to the Escapes section (and talk about your hack metaphors). There was a story on the front page about two funky yet charming Seattle neighborhoods and the writer used the phrase "you can still lose yourself so thoroughly [there]" and I just thought that was the perfect description of where I want to be.