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What does "Where am I going with this? " mean in the below paragraph?
When can we use it in English?
Or how about the song ‘twinkle, twinkle little star’, you know, ‘twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are’. Well, we’ve all heard this song. Where am I going with this? Well, both the song and the story are examples of memes. And that’s what we would talk about, the theory of memes.
"Where am I going with this" is a fairly common rhetorical question used mainly informally.
It means "where is this line of thought leading", or "what is the point I am making".
The speaker/writer asks it of themselves, often after a lengthy introduction, and usually leads into them making their final point. It is intentionally humorous and suggests that the audience may be at this point wondering if they are just rambling or actually have a point to make.
