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Hindsight is easy, but decisions made in the moment are often much more difficult, the “right” choice often much harder to discern.
It is right and necessary and important to set goals and chase them. But to do so singularly, particularly regarding those roads which will take many months, even years, to accomplish is to miss the bigger point. It is the journey that is important, for it is the sum of all those journeys, planned or unexpected, that makes us who we are.
One eye looking toward your future destination, one eye firmly gazing on your present path, I say.
It takes the immediacy of mortality to remind them to watch the sunrise and the sunset, to note the solitary flower among the rocks, to appreciate those loved ones around them, to taste their food, and revel in the feel of a cool breeze. To appreciate the journey is to live in the present, even as you aim for the future.
Familiarity may breed contempt, as the old saying goes, but in truth, familiarity breeds family and familial love, and that bond is powerful indeed.
