Maybe life isn’t a journey after all. Maybe it’s a dance that’s meant to be enjoyed.
Alan Watts, British philosopher, writer and speaker, said, “Life is not a journey!”
When I first read that statement, I thought he was mistaken. After all, we continually say that life is a journey. Specifically, that life is not a destination but more like a travelogue. We move through life, one experience after another.
We are born, we learn, then work, find success, marry and raise children — on and on and at some point, we die. Always thinking there is another step and that we are not finished.
That’s why death is an anathema; we never think we’re complete. We need more time for more journeys. But as Watts so emphatically points out, if we live this philosophy, we will always be searching for more. We want more fulfillment — more money, more love, more success, satisfaction and more happiness because we’re on this journey after all.
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