Add to the Love Pool in you by Loving your Journey

 

Arthur Ashe: “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

There is a real journey beyond the mirage. We simply need to have the eyes for it. The mirage leaves you struggling. Its blinding sands chuck out the rays emanating from your real compassionate self. As a struggler you cling to your fears, limited gets the vision and you constrict. The real journey, on the other hand, lends you a simple task, leaving you with enough scope to retain your loving rays as you smile and move on, appreciating the efforts of fellow travelers.

Matsuo Basho: “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

So buddies keep your eyes on the journey itself instead of the destination. Real happiness and joy lie in doing rather than completing the task. In the latter’s stronghold, we miss the fun, looking as we are all the time at the finish line.

As Raheem DeVaughn says, we are on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

You are not here to discover new miracles for the world. You are here to recover your own self, your own truth, your own loving nature. This mainly is the basic journey. Try to stay perpetually in this journey; never mind the destination. Let your joy and happiness be your journey itself, instead of some far away goalpost. You can simply be the map-maker of a short-sweet fable. Chart your waters.

The journey is priceless in that you row your boat with your skills, talents and abilities. It is empowering. Your fears change into definite steps to freedom. And freedom cannot help but make you an embodiment of loving kindness.

Life isn’t just sailing in calm, composed waters. Mostly, the waters are stormy. That is the law of nature. It simply cannot leave things static. Things will turn static only at the moment of the cosmic crunch, the opposite of the Big Bang when the universe will implode to start exploding again in the next spell of activity. So till then enjoy the activity.

Overall, our character is defined by the manner we captain our little boats to enter the peaceful waters, the doldrums, for a short period of time. Sailing in calm waters is not the reality though. The storm lurking over the horizon defines the reality about life. Keep an eye on it as you are cooling your heels after the last battle.

Sadness may strike you while you drop your knapsack, like a battle weary soldier easing her of the metal armor and weapons, and look at the dreamy destination you have toiled to reach, which unfortunately doesn't look the way you expected it. Don't forget this destination, which you find short of expectations, at least gave you a journey and made you richer by adding positives to the man and woman in you. Irrespective of the destinations, love your journey, for there are no destinations, only journeys.

Destinations are the shifting mirages. Reach one, and its latest variant teases you from a distance again, pulling you into an endless pursuit. With biggest uncertainty about its ending, life is naturally supposed to be a journey and its carrier simply a journey-woman. Had it been meant for destinations, the timing of its ending, death, won’t have been the most uncertain thing for each and every being alive out there. There never was a happy person who didn’t enjoy the journey to have his bumper reward of happiness in one lot after reaching the so called ‘destination’.

Braving the stormy patch and keeping an eye on the next one is the formula to become a successful caption of your life. So simply be a journeyman or journeywoman. Quite ironically, the destination is just being there on the path, simply journeying.

Look into the past and try to remember all those who died and try to recall how many reached the so called destination. The only fixed destination is death, which is the most uncertain event (in term of its time of occurrence) for all of us.

There is no such thing as ‘life’, the hard-fixed noun. All we have is a sweet-sour poultice ‘living’, the verb, the activity, the process, the journey.

So do your deeds, make your run, have your shots at your so called goals, but never forget that the process of doing itself is your reward. Beyond that any idea of rewards and destinations is just like mirage in the deserts. And thousand miles after mirages don’t give you as much as a few steps to the nearest stunted tree and a tiny water puddle may give.