#1390 - on a journey
We usually begin a journey to get somewhere. And that somewhere, the destination, gives meaning to the journey. Any time we go through struggles, face resistance or are fatigued, all we have to do is think about what awaits us at the end, and we regain the energy and the will to go on.
Sometimes, that is the only purpose of the destination: to set out on a journey.
Because it's the journey that will transform us. As the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy beautifully describes in his poem Ithaka.
But what if the destination is fuzzy and unclear? What if you are moved by an inner restlessness, a profound desire to inquire about life and its meaning, even if you know it's a journey with no end?
Then, you have to learn to find meaning in the journey itself.
Now that I think and write about it, I can't see much difference.
It doesn't matter where the motivation comes from.
What truly matters is the journey.
And who we become by going through it.