Journeys
...ogether in one great big journey that is the journey of life. Physical journeys are always associated with travel and holiday, but this is just a simple type of journey. A Physical journey is the motion of a body through a varying environment. This varying environment could be time or our physical surrounding. A physical journey doesn’t need to be a movement form a to b it could be the battle against cancer in a hospital bed, which inturn is still the movement from a to b, but rather than measured in distance it is measured in time. Time is just another variable in the journey of life. However time is a funny thing as people always tend to lose track of the time because they are spending to much time in either the past or the future. What is in the past is in the past, no matter how long we look at it; it won’t change. Same goes for the future, if you spend too much time looking into the future which we can’t see, you miss out on the present. For this reason all we have is the present and if we stop to think about it; it is in the past. So basically we need to enjoy every moment of our life and our journeys at that moment. Journeys are the product of causalities, cause and effect. In our life and in our journeys we are faced with choices which are the cause of our journeys and the way that they turn out. In our journeys we will come up to an obstacle and we have to make a choice on how to get around it, and from that choice we will have to deal with the consequences of it. This is the cause and effect, without this we will be robots that have no capability of thinking for our self as we only learn from our mistakes. Can we have a journey without a physical aspect? An assumption that is often made is that all journeys are in fact physical. From a study of ‘Journey to the Interior’ and ‘Your Journey’, I have come to see that this is not the case. In Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘A Drive in the country’, I saw that a journey can be one that is in the mind. An imaginative journey through your dreams and fantasies is just as real as one though the freezing Antarctic that Shackleton went through. Journeys don’t need to be eighteen months to change you life either. The ‘Road not Taken’ was a small and short journey but it has made a huge change in Robert’s life. However there may not be a physical aspect in all journeys, I do think that there is some form of inner journeys in all. They may be so small that you don’t realise but I do think that every event or journey that goes on in your life will make you grow as a person and send you on a journey down your mind. Can one man’s journey be compared to the next? From ‘Journeys End’ I saw that in the end all of man’s journey through life we are all equal and that we all end up as humans, not as rich men or as poor men but just as humans. And by this you can’t compare one man’s quest to the next. In the movie ‘Dances with Wolves’ however there is the image that we mustn’t always choose the path that is familiar to us as that is no different to the person next to you. This tells me that we can compare journeys as the one that takes the different rout is the one who will enjoy it, as supposed to the one that takes the same socially accepted rout over and over again. So which is it? The answer is up to you and what you decide. Do we control our own journeys or is there some...