The road to the destination is uneven and bumpy. There are ups and downs. It passes through jungles, and deserts, and rivers, and oceans, and illusions. Sometimes it is narrow. Sometimes it is congested. Sometimes you realize you are going too slow. Sometimes you find yourself going too fast. At times it feels you are not moving at all. Sometimes it gets very hot. Sometimes you are stuck in a blizzard. Sometimes it rains. Sometimes the tire gets flat, and the engine heats up. Sometimes you just don’t feel like traveling and you decide to take a break, and rest for a while. Sometimes the rest becomes the permanent stop. And the destination fades away. Sometimes an illusion is taken as the destination and you are lost forever. Sometimes the traveler just gets tired of this never ending journey and gives up. Sometimes they might be just a few yards away. Sometimes all it takes is one extra mile and you are there. Sometimes you are just going in the opposite direction and you don’t know. Sometimes your compass is broken. Sometimes the map you carry is wrong and it shows green land where there are rocky mountains.
The road to the destination is not easy.
There are two kinds of people. Those who are prepared, and those who are not. Those who are prepared know what it takes to get across. They are well equipped. They have the spare tires and engine coolants. Their vehicle is tuned to cruise through all kinds of terrains. They hardly face any problems during their journey and they reach the destination safe and sound. Game over. Mission accomplished.
Those who are not prepared are the unlucky ones who face all the problems that are possible. They go through hell at every step. The feel the effects of changing weather. The scorching heat burns their skin. The blistering cold paralyses their body. They are lost. They are misinformed and misdirected every time they ask for directions. They fall for every illusion that comes their way. They feel the agony every single day. Such is the misery when you go for a journey and you are totally unprepared.
There are two possibilities. You either give up, or you keep on trying. If you give up, you lost it. You will never know what is on the other side. You will never know how green the grass is, how blue the sky is, how clear the water is, and how beautiful the horizon is. You spend the rest of your life in that misery. You feel the agony for the rest of the days. You will never discover how close you were to the destination when you let it go. You will never realize that if you had just hung in there for a little longer, you would have seen a clearer path, leading straight to your destiny. And if you do realize it, You regret it with every breath you take.
Those who never give up are the real champions. They are the real heroes. They stick to their path under all circumstances. They come clean out of every storm. They keep struggling against every interference. They get back on track every time they are lost. They just keep moving with burnt skin, and crippled legs, and damaged soul. They stand up again after falling for every illusion. They learn a new lesson every time they fail. And eventually, they make it. They get to their target. They achieve their goal. They know the true meaning of happiness. They are the ones who truly enjoy the victory, because they know how it feels to be a failure. They are the ones who inspire. They are the ones who evolve into leaders.
The road to the destination is not impossible.
Just like the road to destiny, the first para was not easy – it was a bit lengthy. But the rest is well written.
I have a question: how do you know that the grass is green on the other side and the sky is blue at the other end? Perhaps, it’s the journey itself that matters the most; the destiny might not be the motivation? What if you die before you see the other end? If the destiny was important, you would have done a great wrong by choosing not to give up. Because you were no better than those who didn’t try at all and you faced a lot of hardships in achieving nothing.
But if the journey mattered more than the destiny itself; low and behold, the further you reach, the more better off you are from those who give up.
Just how I look at this issue…
Interesting!
i think the destination is more important, cuz if you are just going in an unknown direction then how can you be motivated to keep on going when you don’t know where you are going. Success partly depends on how close you get to your destination, if you didn’t totally reach it.
This entire narration is kept so abstract on purpose. One can interpret it into any scenario. If you are religious, then the destination can be paradise, which is not an easy task. If you are not so religious, then making a good name in this world could be your destination, or to excel in a career, or to get promoted, or to get married to a particular girl, or something as materialistic as buying a new car could be something around which one’s life revolves. Of course, if the goal is not long term, then you need a new goal after achieving it, which is a fine strategy to live a life.
Again, you can look at this in your own way.