366 days of wisdom (June 04, 2020)

Day 156 of wisdom

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

No one ever starts a journey without a definite, and precise destination in mind, anyone who starts a journey without knowing where he is heading for will be seen as one who is not wise. No matter how long a journey takes, there will be an end, there will be a destination, there will be a finish line. Most of the times, people despise the journey, and the impact it has on the voyager, but exalts the destination, but it is the journey the has the most important impact on us. 

Robert Pirsig once said, "to live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." Though the future is the goal, the brightness, the glamour, the excitement that it offers is highly anticipated, we should not forget that what makes the destination worthy the while is the journey itself. The celebrations at the top of the mountain is not because we got to the top, it is because we climbed to the top. We would not celebrate getting to the top of a mountain if we were to be dropped at the top by a chopper, but we would if we climbed to the top.

You would have had the phrase, "the end justifies the means" but if the means wasn't enjoyed, if the means wasn't properly experienced, the end will not be very exciting. Who we become on our journey to the future is what makes the difference in our lives, not where we get to. The best gift we can get from the journey is who, or what we become, it can never be taken away from us.

The end is the goal, but the means is what makes the end worth it. While we anticipate a great ending, we must make the journey as experientially impacting as possible. Experience is built on the journey not at the destination. Build your experience, build your life.

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John Kamikun.