What is more important — the destination or the journey?
I think knowing your destination is important. For example, when you ride a jeepney you know where it’s headed to and where you will stop or say “para”! Getting on a plane, boat or any transportation must show that you have a destination. Because, if you ride a jeepney, you need to know where you are going – to set foot on a definite destination.
As to the journey, the journey may or may not have a destination. In case you have a destination, the journey is mind may be made of detours and reroutes. It may be a bumpy jeepney ride for us girls. It may be a hard and winding curve for all of us. But you have to journey first before reaching a destination.
In the midst of it all, you may get lost – literally and figuratively. You may have stopped earlier at a wrong crossing or couldn’t distinguish the pedestrian stop late at night. Hey, it happens!
If the detours and reroutes aren’t enough, what about the traffic? It’s hard to move forward because of the traffic. Sometimes it may come in loads of anxiousness, impatience or missed opportunities. The journey may even be an adventure. It may be a webbed tunnel or a Puerto Princesa cave. It doesn’t matter, as long as you take steps for the mere experience of living and journeying.
Tell me, what is more important — the destination or the journey?
When you go to places – you have to picture in your mind at least where your destination is — it may be a home or somebody else’s shoulder. It may be at the office or your career or even money goals. The destination has to be exact like a compass unless of course you don’t know where our friends named East, West, North and South come from. Try learning through a sundial.
Also, in between those destinations is the journey of the sun at its axis. The sunrise, the sunset and the in-betweens – their memory makes the journey all worthwhile. They create good memories that light and dark intertwine to give way for the gloomy and not gloomy days. If you’re lucky enough – I think you’ll see a rainbow.
Again, what is more important — the destination or the journey. Whatever it is, aren’t you glad we’re alive and kicking? So make that horse kick or a karate kid so high just don’t out balance yourself. You don’t have to try hard, you just have to be the unique you – whether you’re diagnosed or undiagnosed.
We all are the same – reaching for a destination and journeying all the while. It’s an experience that’s filled with emotions and aren’t you glad you are alive?