The Destination or The Journey
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it yourself.” Walt Whitman once said in the Leaves of Grass. In life we partake in a lot of journeys, so my question is what is more important the journey or destination? Does the destination matter if your life is potentially over? And How could the destination be more important? Spiritual Journey is the progression of a person in understanding God, The world and there self. When knowing and serving God you have to go through some sort of journey with your faith in order to get to heaven. Whether you go through tribulation or normal trials life throws at you. Personally my spiritual journey has been …show more content…
In the book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a book about a green knight, King Arthur and Sir Gawain who is King Arthur’s nephew. The Green Knight mocks the people cruelly, calling out King Arthur to take challenge to have someone step up and strike the Green Knights with his own axe. The catch was that the person who struck him would have to the Green Knight a year later and allow him to hit the person with an axe in return. King Arthur had stepped up to the challenge but Sir Gawain stepped up to save his uncle. A year later Gawain goes on the Journey of finding the Green Knight. Along the way Gawain learns that selfishness and fear can ruin morals that we have. Not just morals but also the laws of chivalry and that he must respect and love another set of laws… You may be thinking how can this be used to tell whether the destination or the journey is more important? Well the book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight shows how you can be one of the most “heroic” or honest characters but when you a travel a journey that you believe is life ending the road traveled is more important than what happens when you arrive. In the book Gawain learned that even when it seems that life is over it still matters what you do along the way, and that sometimes when you think life is over you get another chance. (Sir Gawain and the Green …show more content…
Many times in our life we make the choice to better ourselves by getting in shape or just eating healthy. Health is a journey that teaches you self-control, good habits and makes you overall a happier person. Fitness and health is another good example of a path that is required in order to reach your goal/ destination. Joanna Boyles couldn’t afford a gym membership so she built an in home gym and ended up losing 45 pounds. “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you” is something that I started with and Joanna’s statement "I read a fitness article one time that made it sound like if you want to get results you have to have a top-of-the-line certified trainer and pay a little extra for the better gym," she told Redbook. "I read that and thought, 'that 's just dumb. Watch me do it all by myself '...Now, I 'm right where I want to be," Is proof that the journey is often something you have to do on your own. With out a following through with a plan Joanna would have never made it the fit, confident and happy woman she is now. (Mom Who Couldn 't Afford Gym Membership D.I.Y.s One In Her Home And Loses 45 Pounds, Redbook
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it yourself.” Walt Whitman once said in the Leaves of Grass. In life we partake in a lot of journeys, so my question is what is more important the journey or destination? Does the destination matter if your life is potentially over? And How could the destination be more important? Spiritual Journey is the progression of a person in understanding God, The world and there self. When knowing and serving God you have to go through some sort of journey with your faith in order to get to heaven. Whether you go through tribulation or normal trials life throws at you. Personally my spiritual journey has been …show more content…
In the book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a book about a green knight, King Arthur and Sir Gawain who is King Arthur’s nephew. The Green Knight mocks the people cruelly, calling out King Arthur to take challenge to have someone step up and strike the Green Knights with his own axe. The catch was that the person who struck him would have to the Green Knight a year later and allow him to hit the person with an axe in return. King Arthur had stepped up to the challenge but Sir Gawain stepped up to save his uncle. A year later Gawain goes on the Journey of finding the Green Knight. Along the way Gawain learns that selfishness and fear can ruin morals that we have. Not just morals but also the laws of chivalry and that he must respect and love another set of laws… You may be thinking how can this be used to tell whether the destination or the journey is more important? Well the book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight shows how you can be one of the most “heroic” or honest characters but when you a travel a journey that you believe is life ending the road traveled is more important than what happens when you arrive. In the book Gawain learned that even when it seems that life is over it still matters what you do along the way, and that sometimes when you think life is over you get another chance. (Sir Gawain and the Green …show more content…
Many times in our life we make the choice to better ourselves by getting in shape or just eating healthy. Health is a journey that teaches you self-control, good habits and makes you overall a happier person. Fitness and health is another good example of a path that is required in order to reach your goal/ destination. Joanna Boyles couldn’t afford a gym membership so she built an in home gym and ended up losing 45 pounds. “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you” is something that I started with and Joanna’s statement "I read a fitness article one time that made it sound like if you want to get results you have to have a top-of-the-line certified trainer and pay a little extra for the better gym," she told Redbook. "I read that and thought, 'that 's just dumb. Watch me do it all by myself '...Now, I 'm right where I want to be," Is proof that the journey is often something you have to do on your own. With out a following through with a plan Joanna would have never made it the fit, confident and happy woman she is now. (Mom Who Couldn 't Afford Gym Membership D.I.Y.s One In Her Home And Loses 45 Pounds, Redbook