To Travel is Better Than to Arrive............

You know something this guy once said,

“To travel is better than to arrive”.

And I was like why?

Because I used to think that there is only one path

to take to get where you want to be in your life.

But if you choose that one path it doesn’t mean

that you have to bend in all other ones.

I realized that it is actually what happens

along the way that counts -

the stumbles and the falls and the friendships.

It’s the journey not the destination.

You gotta, I guess, trust that future will work out

as it is supposed to be…

You know i have always been a journey man then a destination one. i just love travelling, whether it is through places or through time. I just want to keep travelling until the angels [or the devil ;)] comes and take me. The fun lies there. Life is all about fighting and celebrating the wins then getting stuck up at one place - destination. 

But somehow we don't respect the fact that journey is the thing that we enjoy more then the destination. Its just because of our ignorance that we disrespect it. Take a simple example of phases of life. When i was a kid i always hated studies. I was bad at it and i always dreamt of getting myself into college where i was free to do what i wanted to do. I very seldom use to appreciate what i had and what i could have achieved. But when i grew older and went to college, i realised that my school life full of restriction and scoldings and what not was far better then the college one as there were far much less tension being a kid then a growing teenager. Now i wanted to get into the professional aspect of life. And so god granted me my wish of professional life. But alas, here also i realised that what my college life gave me was far better then what i was getting in the professional front. At least i had time for myself then. Atleast i could hang out with friends free of tension of getting up and going for work.


But tonight i realised how inappreciative i have been to my life. I never appreciated what i got as a kid, a teenager and now as a grown man. But today i looked back at my last tem days at work and it struck me that if i appreciate what i am getting today, lifes going to be much more happy and enjoyable then cribbing for the past or yearning for a better future. Its true that whats past cant be changed but what our future is completely in our hand. But is it also not true that if we enjoy what we do today and do it wholeheartedly then the future is just going to be the way we want it to be? I realised that the journey of past 10 days at my office were one of the most difficult but best days of my professional life till date. Just because it taught me to appreciate what i have right now rather then living in the past. I am able to accept the fact that the two good phases of my life are over and now its in my hand to make the next few phases of life good for me and for the ones i matter. For the first time i think i am going to live for today and appreciate what i am having rather then thinking what i have lost. I guess i have learnt the most imp lesson of my life i.e. travelling the journey rather then getting stuck up at one destination in life.


I want to be the one who doesnt cry for it to finish but rather be happy that it happened.


I hope that the journey of this blog continues and doesnt end up at one particular destination!!!