JOURNEY OF LIFE

 'A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.' How very relaxed and inscrutable of him. Aren't we all just travellers on the great journey of life? Might we not all enjoy the experience far more if we focused less on results and destinations?
It would be easier to abandon a plan, than to encounter more frustration in pursuing it.  It may well prove to be the case that you don't yet think there is a discovery to be made. The answers, such as they are, seem all too obvious. But all of those potential answers raise further questions.
We can't choose the weather. We can't pick which news stories make the headlines. We can't even engineer a TV soap opera so that it gives our favourite character a better outcome. So there. That's a fairly long list of areas in which we may consider ourselves impotent. But can we conclude from this, that all our aspirations are destined to end in frustration? Once in a while, life gives us a taste of what's possible and it reminds us of what we can accomplish if we truly try. This is our life journey in nutshell!
Or Time is like a train. It takes all its passengers along at the same speed. Some run up and down the corridors in an attempt to reach the future first. Others head for the rear carriage and peer out of the back window. It makes no difference. We can't control the speed of the journey. We can, though, have an influence over the extent to which we enjoy it. You have good reason to look forward to your destination. Stop worrying about whether you should be travelling along another set of tracks.
Whenever we find ourselves in a difficult situation, we soon begin to imagine that this is somehow all we deserve and therefore all that we should expect. We start thinking about the foolish moves we must have made and the price that must now be paid. Soon we have conjured a tale of woe in which we are the central character. Yet even under such circumstances, one brief, bright, exchange - one comforting, pleasing experience - can dispel a thousand dark and doomy clouds.