I fear that we as travelers are too invested in getting to the destination without experiencing the journey. That the end goal sums up all means made through our travel, but we don't really know what those are. As people, we tend to focus to much on the dream and not the steps to get us to what we want to become, because that is dirty and filled with heartbreak and disappointment.
This man clearly understands my point.
I offer however a different way of viewing, I think the very best of our goals are the steps we take to reach them. The end destination is just a grim reminder that we don't have anything left to work for, we've got what we've wanted. It the actual process that we should be more concerned about, it does hold the very goal we choose to rave so much about, and more importantly can toss it away from us if it so wants to.
I want my world to be filled with travels, destinations are not what I care about, it's the characters in the narrative of my life and the places that I visit that interest me because they in turn decide what kind of person I am going to become. When I focus more on what it is that is around me rather than what is ahead of me I get a much clearer picture if the end of the road is the one I want to keep going for. I could very well see that along this path is nothing that I hoped for, and that thought is what drives me, and also can turn me astray.
I hope that in time people take the opportunity to look around a bit more, I'm not asking anyone to stop and smell the roses, I particularly don't like the smell, I'm just asking that people get more of a sense of what is there when they pass by. It may not always be there when you turn back.
My purpose here was a reaction to walking with a friend on campus who constantly tries to pick the fastest way to get from point A to point B. I find myself cutting through smelly back alleys of housing apartments to just get somewhere and sit for 3 hours. Why not take a walk across the green, run your hand through the water or the fountain? I despise sitting around and wasting an opportunity to see something that I wouldn't be able to if I stayed in my current state, so I tend to take familiar, yet more content-filled routes along the way.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love your post, it is worded beautifully, and the sentences just seem to flow. I am not the greatest at creating blogs, but I think if you were to add/change anything about this post it could be the placement of your text. I typed up my blog the same way, in paragraph form, but I feel like your post is different and it should be treated that way. Because you are writing about something so inspirational, maybe you could try to incorporate that into your text placement. For example, spacing out words, bolding important parts, using italics, or
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I think I understand the point of the image you posted, but I am not sure exactly what the picture is? I see that the car has stopped to take a hard look at what is going on outside, which definitely goes well with your argument, but I wish the photo was more definable. It seems like there is a fire in the middle of the street. Although this is an odd situation, I feel like you could have found a different picture to help prove your point of view. I like how you posted the photo after your first paragraph, however, I do not think the caption was necessary. The majority of the blog is black, and I think it fits perfectly into your text—by placing our focus entirely on the image.
There is really so much that you can do to exemplify the purpose of this post, and the options are endless. However, I think that the text in itself speaks to the readers in such a way that simply moving around some of the words for visual effect would dramatically help readers understand exactly what you are feeling.