JOURNEYS AND NOT ONLY DESTINATIONS SHOULD BE RELISHED.

The family of a friend of mine had gone to Vaishno Devi Temple. It is a temple in Jammu and one has to track the hill for distance of 14 +14 km. The family had to expend about 7 hours on foot journey from nearest town of Katra and 5 minutes for worshipping before deity. The persons habitual of comfortable city life were in full bliss and were overjoyed. None looked tired.

We exchanged our views on it. The conclusion was that not only they relished the destination place but also relished the entire journey itself. That was the reason they were as fresh as they were when they started outward journey.

Then we did pondering over the point. We are in habit to treat the journey as burdensome and destination item as our target. Instead we should relish the journey and target both as per circumstances and situations. This I say not in the context of real journeys only but in LIFE TOO. We set a target of our life as per blueprint of aim of our life. We put efforts to achieve same. We treat the efforts as burden and crave to get result according to our expectations. Efforts we did not enjoy and result we enjoy only when it is as per our expectation otherwise not. But if we make our habit to (i) have a plan for our target (ii) put efforts and enjoy the efforts (iii) put best efforts and leave the result in hands of God and to (iv) relish the final outcome, our life will be changed. We shall have more incidents covering much more time to give us enjoyment. You are in kitchen - cooking should also be enjoyed along-with eating the cooked items. You are going to office – just enjoy the driving also. You are engaged in any project, efforts to shape same should also be enjoyed. You want to expand business, relish the outcome of marketing strategies but more important is to enjoy the efforts of steps taken including interactions with people etc.

Journeys and not only destinations should be relished.