Journey of Life

When sometimes we undertake a journey have we ever realized how similar it is to the life’s journey that we are making day in and day out since our birth? Imagine that you need to go and visit some place with many interesting things to see, having many accessible and inaccessible nooks and corners, each one of which is worth visiting. Himalayas for instance offer one such interesting destination. There are so many things to see but you end up seeing something and missing others. When you start the journey you are full of enthusiasm, just like when you are a child beginning on the life’s journey, eager to learn, full of optimism. But as you progress in your journey, you see many interesting things, some of the sites fascinate you, some do not, you are able to visit some interesting places and miss out on some others. In real life, you have so many experiences, some of them interesting while some are painful, others are just boring. You have so many desires; some of them get fulfilled, while others are not.


When you finally reach your destination there is a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment, you look back retrospectively at the journey undertaken and view it from an altogether different perspectives, collect lessons learned, analyze the mistakes and failures, the losses on the way and the gains. Similarly when you enter old age you have almost completed your life’s journey, mission is accomplished and you are left with memories of pleasures and pains, of friends and relatives. During the course of the journey you may have met fellow passengers who have chatted with you for a while, may have helped you, may have also eradicated some of the difficulties and boredom, but they are all transient phenomenon. They fade away once your journey is complete. Similarly in life’s journey you have met so many people, near and dear ones who made that journey tolerable and pleasing, but yet, slipped into oblivion one by one and at the end you are left with nothing but memories.

Now that you have completed your journey, seen what you came to see, experience what you came to experience, you yearn for your home, the comfortable and cozy nook to which you really belong. At the end of life’s journey also there is a great yearning to return to the place where we do really belong, and we do return there, all of us.