Elizabeth Watkins - Journeys

In class on Thursday we talked about how the problem with American ideas of journey is that we think that the journey is the point. But the journey isn’t the journey without the end goal. What drives you is the point of everything. I felt at that moment that I’ve never really had a “real” journey. But when I thought about it I realized that every day in life I have a journey. From the moment I wake up, there is that end goal that gets me going through the day. Everyday is a journey. Whether I get through the day for my family, for a specific reason of something that happens that day, or just simply for myself, I am experiencing a motivational thing. I am driven every day and through every chapter of my life. Am I ever going to have a real spiritual journey though? How many people have those kinds of experiences where they give up their sense of a permanent home to go travel and experience all they can? What are the odds that a person like me will do that one day? These are all questions that I may never have the answer to, but its nice sometimes to hear stories of people that did so that you know it is something that is possible.