Life is a journey. It’s a beautiful journey regardless of how it goes. It’s beautiful regardless of whether we get the success we hoped or not. While some journeys are bumpier than others, you can always find the beauty in all types of journeys.
The goals we set, the vision we create is just to give us a compelling reason to move on with the journey even when we don’t feel like it. A journey by its nature is a motion. You can’t stay still and be on a journey. You’ve got to move on. While the purpose of the journey is the journey itself, an essential part of a journey is to have a destination. And the destination needs to feel so important that gets you going even when you feel staying is more comfortable.
The journey itself is not a choice. You are born to take this journey and you are destined to come to an end sooner or later. But how to take this journey is your choice. The quality of your journey is up to you. And what goals you want to set for yourself to achieve along the journey is your choice. You may just take the journey as compulsory as it is. To just bear it, hate every moment of it and curse whoever puts you on this journey. Or you may appreciate the opportunity; commit to make most out of it regardless of what openings or obstacles might come along. You may decide that you are the captain of your ship along this journey or you may decide to believe that you have no control on it and it’s the fate that is taking you everywhere. You are free to decide to show gratitude for having this journey or to consider it as a blasphemy.