“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
~Don Williams, Jr.
It is the journey that molds us into the people who step foot on to our destination. There is no greater example of this that Odysseus. He traveled twenty years before reaching his home, and when he landed there he was a different man than when he left.
The Odysseus who was hubris and proud during his battle with Polyphemus quickly learned from the negitive repercussions that he had to change, and he humbled himself and became a beggar. The eggotistical man who left Ithica and his family would not have been able to dress in rags. He had to have learned.
“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
What does this mean for us? How can our journies impact us? I think that in order for our pasts to influence us we have to have pasts worthwhile. We have to live our lives with no regrets, fall down and learn as we climb back up. Odysseus failed several times, and it is because he fell he grew, and I think we can too.
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