The journey IS life

Chapter 159

To drive home the point of the last chapter, all puns intended, I spent 18 hours in a car over the last two days with one of the most important people in my life, and with whom I don’t get to spend nearly enough time. We live 5000 miles (literally) apart from one another, and so see each other not nearly enough. We decided on a whim to go look at and possibly purchase an antique car out in Ohio. The destination proved to be a bust, and we came back to our starting point without an antique car.

But isn’t that just like life, the goal the objective is often a fail, a miss, not nearly as nice as you were hoping it would be, and so if the journey to get there is also a fail then you have a triple fail on your hand. But if the journey to get there is as important as the objective maybe waiting at the end, then it is a win hands down. The journey IS life. What we want more of life, is that the drive to where we are heading is as equally important and impactful as the destination may be. We got to Ohio, and the car was not what we wanted in the end, but the drive there and back was epic - detours, deaths, accidents, snow, ice, boring long stretches of road, and critical conversations.

We explored the more of what we want in our lives, and how to see it more and more as we start the last third of our lives. These were not frivolous conversation pieces. First of all I had to convince my friend that we had another 30 years ahead of us, and then I had to convince him that they matter a great deal. 

The journey, the drive, is where life happens. Live it well.