Strait Passage: The Journey

I recently came across, for the first time to really pay attention to them at least, the passages of Matthew 7: 13 and 14 and was excited by what I read there:

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

This is from the KJV - Note the spelling of Strait. It is not Straight. Strait is a correct translation from the Latin Vulgate, “angustam porta”, literally “narrow passage”.
The dictionary definition for Strait is thus:

1. A narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water. Often used in the plural with a singular verb.
2. A position of difficulty, perplexity, distress, or need. Often used in the plural: in desperate straits.

These two definitions, together, make up the whole of Strait in this context.
I have spoken of straits before, referencing to the John Donne poem “Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness”, and the relationships in that poem to the journey of the wanderer. What I said about it was this: “In ‘Hymn...’ Donne makes reference to several Straits (That of Magellan, Anyan, and Gibraltar). A strait represents a tight place of passage, between to large bodies of water, literally, or figuratively we can safely say it is a reference to making the journey, from one place unto another. Perhaps as Brendan [St. Brendan] journeyed from this world to another and back again.”
I am a believer in journey, in living the life of a seeker in all things. Although I consider myself spiritual, being a seeker is more than any sort of faith – even an atheist has a philosophy, and everyone has a passion. It is through our world-view that we establish the understanding of the natural order, how the world works, that is the foundation for our mores and ethics, our human relationships and even our decision-making philosophies. It is my belief that it is not just the enhanced life, but it is the true life that is the life of the wanderer. The true student, the faithful disciple, is the wanderer.
I endeavor to be a wanderer. I endeavor to question, to seek, to my satisfaction. An answer is the foundation of a question, and the question is ever faithful to the truth.

“Strait is the gate, and narrow the way, which leadeth unto life” – The strait and narrow, the hard road, is the path to life. The hard road is the path of the wanderer.
Not the Straight and Narrow as is so commonly said – What means this, straight and narrow? It says “Follow this line” (the road as defined by another), but this is a perversion of the truth: A command to unquestioningly, undeviatingly, unknowingly walk a prescribed path.
The hard road, the difficult road, is the honest road. To be honest, we must be questioned, or tested to use another word.
To be tested we must not take the beaten path, the easy path (the wide gate and broad way), but the hard road. To be questioning, to be questioned (for, are not most questions in this realm essentially of ourselves, or relating to ourselves, making us both the questioning, and the questioned?), is the way of the wanderer.