Rules for a Great Adventure no. 05: Don’t Rush the Journey
Anyone else need the reminder?
I get so motivated by milestones, benchmarks, and accomplishments, that I often forget that the real joy is found in the process.
All good stories and life itself is driven by a journey. Things to pursue. Problems to solve. Once the problems are solved and things are settled, stories naturally come to an end. There’s nowhere left for them to go.
We tend to overrate getting to the destination at the cost of underrating the journey.Things like hurry take us further away from that state of lightness you find with kids, dogs, wise older people. No wonder Dallas Willard famously said that the best way to become the kind of person you wish to become, then you must “ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” Hurry and love don’t mix.
You know how violence, poor health, and pollution are associated with poverty because of desperation? Hurry and obsessing over the future are similar. They create a spiritual sense of poverty that make us less like the people we want to be.
