I was once told it’s better to enjoy the journey rather than only anticipating the destination.
I’ve learned though appreciating the journey, that the journey brings with it: ups and downs, laughter and tears, independence and dependence, confusion and clarity, wrongs and forgiveness, confidence and doubt, anxiety and peace… Being on a journey implies the destination is still to come. I guess it may also be true that each journey probably has many “destinations” along the way. We reach the destination (a new job, a heartbreak, a trip, graduation, etc), maybe we stay a while, but then we keep going. When we decide to go on, we bring with us lessons from those destinations that make us more loving, more cautious, more forgiving, less afraid, more willing…
That gives me comfort and hope because I’ve not yet learned all that this journey of faith and life and love have to offer me. I have learned, however, that in between the destinations is a journey worth travelling. And I’m up for the journey.