Today's life requires us to have goals from the very beginning. In fact, it seems pretty good to have a certain level of ambition in those goals. We reach goals throughout our lives and the sooner the better, it would mean that we are going to go far. Applause for having reached the goal.
So we have thousands or millions of people on the planet pursuing goals and reaching them. Who benefits from reaching goals? What goals? What are those goals based on?... I think we have all set goals and we have also enjoyed reaching them. We pay little attention to the journey, whether it was suffered or enjoyed or both or neither. The curious thing is that the duration of the journey to reach the goal is much longer than the moment of arrival, that doesn't last at all! And what happens after we reach that goal?
If the journey takes as long as the goal, shouldn't we be as focused on the journey as on the goal? In other words, becoming experts at making good journeys and enjoying them could be very valuable since we spend most of our time on them. Life is spent on journeys to different goals. Reaching goals is just moments.
A full life is closely related to the number of memorable moments it has throughout it and many of these moments are surely related to reaching a few goals, but wouldn't those be so few moments compared to all the possible ones if we could make the journeys days of learning, enjoyment and remembrance. In the end the question is: How do we become more skilled at making every minute and hour of our life worth remembering? Is there a secret to this?
The answer to this question is broad. I will try to get close to an answer but I have no doubt that a lot of information will be needed on this subject. However, I will give you the most important reference that has motivated me to write this blog, it is called "The Power of Now", a book written by Eckhart Tolle.
The journey, the process, the meaning of life, are different ways of calling it. Because of its duration, it is very important to make this journey a source of enjoyment of life. The key is to know how to live in the moment, to know how to live in the present, to know how to live in the now. The present is the only thing we have. If we can isolate the present from our past and its emotional consequences, and additionally, isolate the present from the anxiety caused by the uncertainty of the future, we will be in a better position to create something much more memorable from our present moment.
When we clear the present from the effects of time we can take advantage of everything we really are, our entire being and we can dedicate it to it. We are giving ourselves completely, it becomes a timeless and completely experiential experience, that moment becomes pure life. The clarity, creativity, and emotions that are generated in moments like this are purer and reflect what we really are, without the blankets that cover us, or corrosion or worries. How good it sounds and it is better to live it in everyday life.
Of course, a life like this, a journey like this, multiplies the memorable moments, it does not limit them to the moment of reaching a goal. On the contrary, it expands them to the moments in which our being was able to show itself as it is and gave itself. Those are great moments to always remember. Are we going to focus on the journey or the goals?
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