Maybe they didn't need showing the way. This open door of an opportunity was all a waste. When their fate has already given them the direction to go in.
An offering for a kind gesture, of something that will need nurturing and given care. The thought that counts was there but the demand to look after it wasn't really considered.
Look at you, sitting up there on its perch. Whistling a fine tune while watching the world go to shit. The thing is, that shit is building up and growing bigger that it'll reach that perch one day. Then what?
There's no point in trying to argue with someone who believes is in control. They won't listen to what is right or wrong, because "they are right". Apparently.
Problem with believing in a magic carpet, is how that magic performs. Will it be one that disappears, or one that quickly be pulled from under the feet. Surely are not thinking of the flying version. Perhaps consider wool instead of a carpet, when it comes to being eye to eye with others.
In the forest; if the answers cannot be found by looking out of a window. Then try finding the answers within that room. Usually when a path can be seen out of a window, the answer was found to all their doubts within. That led to seeing further beyond their deepest wishes.
St. Luke Ch.21:V.36 " - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."