You are sitting in a comfortable chair relaxing.. You realise the quientness around.. And In No Time you are deep in thoughts listening to The Silent Words... Let Them Speak for they will Surprise You..

JOURNEY

Posted by Nikhil Patokar On Sunday, April 03, 2011 10 comments


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Life is a journey. It’s not where you travel to. It’s the route you take for your journey. Life is a climb. It’s not about the view from the top. It’s about the things you learn during the climb.

Is journey displacing yourself from one place to another? For that we may have a word Travel. But then what is journey.

Mostly people tend to travel through their life to reach a particular aim, destiny, destination, even designation. And do we need to talk of the route. It’s the same one, everyone takes... But what we need to do is to take a journey to that place that aim and that destination.

You may reach your destination, while travelling but what have you gained with it! Let us take an unplanned journey into Life. Why do we need to have a planned travelogue? Why does one require seeing himself 10, 20, 40 years ahead of time?

Let us for a moment think about the unplanned journey we took before. It may be about giving way to the bike till the petrol went dry. Some about the unheard places. Some about strangers turned friends.

Have you ever reached a place and asked the local the name of the place. It’s always so fun so amazing a thing to do. Might be even better a feeling than of India winning the world cup.

But jokes apart. Everything seems so much fun then why do people want you to travel and not take journey.
Maybe we have a very good reason behind it. What I say, might have been a huge mistake in the past and hence such thinking ceased to come forward in time. Maybe or maybe not.

Wish I Had Wings
But at this moment, I don’t want to know if am right or wrong or even the past. I don’t. I don’t need a plan. I don’t want to travel. I need to fly, and I need to fly high...

Take my own leap into the clouds and disappear into them going distances only to reach a place unheard, unseen. A place only imagined. Whatever it maybe. But I need to fly...

LIFE IS A JOURNEY, NOT SOME TRAVELOGUE...

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10 Comments !!!:

Good differentiation between Travel and Journey .. but I think both are conscious decisions - that is fundamental similarity!

Loved your thoughts and differentiation between travel and journey...of course we may reach your destination while travelling but we won't gain any.. Good one. mine is a dream a journey of...

Someone is Special

Your words triggered few thoughts in me , travel and journey , sounds quite synonymous , but both are so different na ?We like to travel , but a journey demands too many things , esp from our ownself , maybe thats why legends'/great peoples journey sounds interesting and motivating ?This journey was really an mind-opener :)

This is so true. It is something I always try to do. Obviously there are questions. Doubts. Uncertainties. But then, they are all a part of the satisfaction we get wen we reach someplace. you know?
Absolutely loved it. Perhaps cos I could relate to it so much.
Good luck.

Life is a journey, not a travelogue.. that says a lot through less :) well said and written! Thanks for journeying along!

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Oh. And btw, my blog is called The silences of words. Talk about coincidences. :)

I liked the closing line. Life is about enjoying it through.
All the best for BAT.

Life is an unknown journey to an unknown destination. You keep grumbling of the obstacles, spoiling the actual pleasure of the journey itself. Well conveyed. Short and crisp. I have written on similar lines. Make most out of the present and enjoy life to the fullest. All the best.

Interesting thoughts. I have sometimes thought it might be fun to just randomly get into a train without knowing where it is going and then get a surprise when it lands or blindly choosing a spot on the map and going there. Well written.

Although contradicting with my own post, I find your version of journey a good piece of job! Yes, life is a journey indeed. Keep writing.

Sureindran
www.sureindran.com
Journey