The Journey We Have Made It To.

The Journey We Have Made It To

  I know few people who stay in the same city their entire life doing the same thing. I would even venture to say I know no people who do that. Most people, everyone I know in fact, move around at one point or another in life. Some people take vacations, some just call it "together time" with their family, but whatever it is, we all travel at some point in life, even if it's to another room in the house. 

What if it really is about the journey and not the destination? There are many people in the world and, chances are good, that there is more than one person somewhere who would give anything for your life. Maybe it's for the simple fact that you have heat in your house or, maybe it's just because you own a house at all. There are billions of people on this planet, what if your journey is someone else's destination? I don't want to play "what-if" games on my blog, those go on endlessly, but think about it for a second with me. There are so many things so many people take for granted. I don't want to sound like I'm insulting  person group or anyone really, that's not my intention at all, I don't want to insult anyone. 

Think about this with me for a moment, your daily tasks, be it your job, family, pets or whatever it is you do, that could well be someone else's dream. Even simply having a job to go to or a pair of working legs to rise upon in the morning is amazing. Your hell could possibly be someone else's heaven. Your silent, single life could be a prostitutes dream. Your endless list of business meetings is what a small business owner hopes to aspire to one day, making his little business worth having meetings about. 

I don't think we should feel good when our lives aren't what we want them to be, that would be silly. We have to keep our hopes alive and our eyes faced towards brighter horizons. At the same time, we have to remember, where we stand now, no matter how uncomfortable we may be, is the peak of someone else's mountain. We have to be willing to help others climb to the top while trying to reach our peak as well. 

I don't want to sound like all the world needs is for people to try to better others, there is a lot wrong with this planet, some things just aren't fixable by us. Situations often fall out of our control and sometimes things go too far. 

But I digress, I will save that topic for another blog.

The point I am trying to get across here is simply this: Don't spend all of your time on the mountain looking to fly with the birds. Don't spend all of your nights on the journey dreaming of the end. The sky can be lonely and the end comes swiftly. Enjoy every step, every stumble, every friend and learn from every enemy. There will be a day when you reach the top and just as swiftly will be the day you fall.--Mattaghetti