IT’S NOT THE DESTINATION BUT THE JOURNEY........
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IT’S NOT THE DESTINATION BUT THE JOURNEY........
Well……it’s party time, there is a marriage in the family and you are busy like hell arranging this and that. Doesn’t matter if you are an adult or a child. Doesn’t matter what's the celebration is........whether its marriage, birthday party, or anything. Everyone has their share of preparation and anticipation for the celebration, in their own individual way, as per their individual agenda. All work, fun and waiting, and then THE DAY comes and pass by. Then you’ll realize that THE DAY has not come out to be as fulfilling as was your anticipation for it, as eventful as you were imagining, as fun-filled as you thought of it to be. Moreover with passing of THE DAY, it also leaves behind a kind of depressing feeling for some time too at the end, that everything is over.
The same is true for examinations of students, when they are under severe pressure to read, remember and write so many things within stipulated time, the pressure of doing well in each day. While through the examinations, they will wait eagerly for the day it will be over, planning all possible relaxing things they can……getting up late, no more studying, going for a movie, may be a outings. The more there are pressure of the examination; the better & relaxing the last day appears to them. But when finally the examination is over, they hardly enjoy the leisure and free time, with no pressure to study or prepare, atleast not upto their planning.
The same is true for examinations of students, when they are under severe pressure to read, remember and write so many things within stipulated time, the pressure of doing well in each day. While through the examinations, they will wait eagerly for the day it will be over, planning all possible relaxing things they can……getting up late, no more studying, going for a movie, may be a outings. The more there are pressure of the examination; the better & relaxing the last day appears to them. But when finally the examination is over, they hardly enjoy the leisure and free time, with no pressure to study or prepare, atleast not upto their planning.
There’s nothing wrong on THE DAY, it’s the nature of human mind. There’s always more enthusiasm in anticipating ‘tomorrow’ than when the tomorrow comes. You are happy in planning your tomorrow’s events. Maybe because when you plan the enjoyment and the fun the tomorrow is supposed to bring, you overlook the constraints and logistics attached to it. But when the day comes in reality, it brings all the reality of constraints, logistics, and sternness with it, that you mostly keep on managing the ends meet instead of enjoying. Or it maybe because of the simple reason that no reality can ever live upto our dream.
It’s always more wonderful feeling to plan than to achieve, to anticipate than to acquire, the journey than the destination. It’s true when you go to meet the special someone of your life for the first time. You have got a lot of anticipation and imagination about the first meeting, the first smile, the first look. But when the moment actually comes and then over, no matter he/she comes out to be better or worse of your anticipation, it culminates all the thrill of imagination. You know how the person is and there’s nothing more to imagine. Many times, it brings a kind of melancholy too; after all, you can never have a second chance for the first look, the first love, the first rain of monsoon…..it’s just once and then over for ever.
It’s true in case of moments too. You have all the freedom to anticipate it until it comes to reality. Like the wrapping paper of the gift. As long as you are unwrapping it, it holds all the excitement and keenness to wonder what’s wrapped inside. You can enjoy the fun as long as you are doing it. No matter how expensive the gift turned out to be, the moment it is exposed to you, there won’t remain any fun and thrill. It’s the process more than the accomplishment that is more exciting. Someone wants to tell you something, this feeling is much more wonderful and hopeful than the moment when the same is being told to you. Perhaps, you will awake all night thinking about all possible things under the sun, what the other person is going to tell you. But no matter how big the secret is, the moment it is revealed, it has lost all its thrill and excitement. The closed book is always more attractive than an open book.
It’s the unseen that you crave for. Be it a movie or a novel, the one which leaves you ecstatic is the one which leaves something undisclosed, unfolded, unreaveled for your imagination. As said so nicely by Paulo Coelho in ELEVEN MINUITES, “Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine”.
But this is one hardcore truth of life. As there are processes, so are their culmination points. As there are journeys, so there has to a destination point. Perhaps the best policy is to enjoy the process instead of waiting to achieve the goal. Forget the destination, stop worrying for it, and leave all these tensions about your end. If you are at the right track, you’ll definitely reach your target. In fact when you stop worrying for your destination, it will also increase your efficiency. Because “With one eye fixed on destination, there is only one to guide you along the journey”(Robin S. Sharma, THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI). Better, enjoy the journey; take pleasure in the company of different travel companion you meet on your way, making the best of every moment you have. If you are not happy taking the journey, chances are there that reaching the top won’t make you happy either. So, enjoy the journey and stop bothering for the end result.No matter how much higher the peak you climb,reaching there will naturally culminate all the fun, thrill and joys of your trekking.
-Anneshwa
-Anneshwa
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