The ironic thing is that most worthwhile journeys seem to point out that we never needed to look outside us; what we were looking for was within us, all around us, the whole time we were looking.
The doubly ironic thing is that most of the time, it seems we need to go on these “pointless” journeys in order to accept this.
How very Thoreau!!! Or maybe it is from the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy discovers all she ever wanted was in her ‘own back yard.’
Yeah it’s an age-old concept right? And it seems to be echoed by people who’ve “made it;” I recall Jim Carrey saying he wishes everyone could be rich and famous so they’d know that it didn’t solve their problems. Plus 70% of lotto winners supposedly blow their earnings within a few years and become more miserable than ever…
Hahaha! I am far from rich, although because I live a simple lifestyle, which allows me a fair amount of disposable income, I do consider myself so. I have t shirts that are ten years old that I still wear, I don’t care for fancy cars, and I don’t indulge in fancy food (not to say that I don’t eat out—during cheat day I can f*ck up a pizza lol). I live in a small studio in San Francisco that I really lucked out in in terms of rent, so if I want a massage or to spend some money driving for a few hours up the coast, then it’s an easy thing for me to do. My life is pretty blissful right now in all honesty! 🙂
Yeah I noticed that…modern shirts start getting these weird holes near the bottom, which for awhile I thought was from the chains I used doing weighted pullups, then some other dude asked me what he thought they were, cause HE was getting ’em too! I believe you’re right—modern shirts just aren’t as good as how they used to make ’em
That’s because the journey teaches us more than we learn when we reach the destination. 😉
It’s like we have these feet, and many forms of transportation and for some reason we let them drag us around like whatever it is, it’s just around the next corner or across the river or somewhere else. The fountain of youth syndrome. Looking for enlightenment in adventure. Indoors or out. Assisted, induced or the simple Zen of inward, it’s all an adventure. Once you realize that you don’t have to be bitten by a snake or climb a mountain to experience their reality, that’s when the adventure begins.
Yes! All those corny cliches of being in the present moment and appreciating what you have…with me it took a bunch of fruitless hamster-wheel-running-for-The-Next-Big-Thing to finally realize that I should stay in motion and have goals…but only so I can enjoy what’s in front of me and let myself drink in the act of DOING and not necessarily finishing.
“The man standing in his own kitchen-garden, with fairyland opening at the gate, is the man with large ideas.” G. K. Chesterton ~ Heretics
It is why many pre-technological cultures require some variation of walkabout to achieve adulthood. This is something we have sadly abandoned.
It’s coming back, I think. A lotta people are heading to peru to get blasted through ayahuasca. Not exactly the same, but similar in many regards
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