The last weekend was a two day road trip to Bangalore and back to Goa. Nearly two thirds of the time was spent in the car. Someone asked my friend Sadiq, as to what was gained by the rush tour. He smiled and replied, ‘I took two days off doing what I like most: driving, spending time with my wife and friends; and enjoying the journey!’
So often, so many of us focus so much on the destination that we lose attention of the journey. While destinations give us purpose and direction, it is the travel that gives us the rich diversity of experience. And the real joy is to be found in the passage.
Consider the analogy of the school. We go there with the purpose of passing the exams and getting the certification of qualification. Now imagine you get the certification but do not have the competency as you have not picked up anything else on the way. You have reached the destination without the experience of the journey.
It is said so well that success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the ending. The road of life has its twists and turns and no two terminus are ever the same. Yet our learnings come from the journey, not the destination. We don't take the trip... it is the trip that takes us... to our happiness!
So whether you set endpoints or not, it is the moving to there that brings along the joy of the journey. We must not lose sight of what is between and beyond the milestones. A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. The real voyage is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having an open mind towards discovering afresh.
Termini
by themselves are restricting
it is the journey that is truly uplifting!
~ Pravin K. Sabnis
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