I’ve been procrastinating on a project over the past few days. I’ve been doing a bit here and there, then redoing it, yet never getting it quite right.
When I mentioned it to a friend yesterday she said, “You’ve been messing around with that for ages.”
“Your trouble is, you know what the end result will be but you just don’t want to do the process to get there.”
I’m laughing to myself as I recall her comments. She absolutely had me pegged.
I rarely want to do the process. I just want to know what the end game is and get there as quickly as possible.
“What about the journey?” you might ask.
“Journey, smurney,” I say.
Like many people, I don’t want to do the journey because sometimes it’s difficult. I’ll have to go through stuff that sometimes I’d rather not go through.
I’ll have to learn lessons that I don’t necessarily want to learn or will make me uncomfortable.
I just want to get there. I’m impatient.
It’s even worse when you’re spiritually aware because the universe makes you learn your lessons. After all, we’re here to evolve and grow spiritually and you can’t do that if you go through life without challenges.
Being human often means we have to learn things the hard way to actually retain the message at all. Frequently we think we know best while the universe has a whole other plan…and that’s when we resist our path and cause ourselves a whole lot of trouble.
It can be frustrating.
After a few more hours, I finally finished my project and I was really happy with the result.
I’d like to tell you that in the future I will not resist the process and I will embrace the journey.
I will do my best. But I have a feeling it’s one of my lessons to learn in this lifetime and there will be a few more challenges ahead.
Good girl. Glad your friend made you get uncomfy.
LoL! I do have wonderful friends who know me well.
Perhaps the challenge is not to learn but to unlearn… Where in life did you learn to accept the end as the only goal rather than taking the journey offers you the many lessons that will give you true growth and wisdom?
“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
― Laozi
I think much of our current human experience is based on the goal. Perhaps it is actually about the balance of embracing the journey (and the wisdom it brings) and achieving the goals.
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Having goals is a notion laid down by modern society. It is nice to have goals, but who is to say that one has the wisdom to understand that the goal you seek is the goal your soul desires. When the journey ends, the destination is not always where we expect it to be. The journey in itself alters ones perspective, the depth of understanding a goal in the fulness of its context.
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A spiritual journey taken via shortcuts is like a hollow M&M. It looks okay, it’s good for show but a key ingredient in the essence of the whole is missing – It is a poor substitute for the real thing.
Embrace the process, it is the journey. Life is what’s happening while we’re preoccupied with living it 🙂