The Journey

We were conditioned to think that the destination is our gold. Win the game, cross the finish line, take a bow, graduate, close the book, walk down the aisle, seal a deal, find the pot of gold at end of the rainbow, all of these ‘life destinations’ of-sort that kept us focused on the end-all. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

That is, until we arrived and looked back— realizing that our growth happens in the journey. All of the trials, the lessons, the sweat, the tears, the light, the knowledge, the love—Story—It is written. It is built. It is tested. It is the gold that makes us human, fills us whole. Destinations are certainly respectable, admirable, and praiseworthy milestones, but

✨our journey is the reward✨ 

Everything we stumble upon, all we gather, who we meet, how we fall and how we rise, how we expand—where we contract—, all that we gain, that which we lose. Every-step we take in between where we start and where we’re going, those places, those spaces in our journey are • the • gold. 

I’d like to think we learned it backwards, the pot of gold isn’t a destination at the end of the rainbow—the rainbow is the pot of gold.

✨🌈💰

Written March 2020

Melissa, The Buzz