Everyday Canvas

On the Journey of Life

Prompt: Life is a journey, not a race. What are your thoughts about this?

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Surely life is a journey, but we may often have several races within that very journey, as there are days when it is one thing after another or several things jumping at us at the same time.

Still, I think we should appreciate each day, no matter how negative, indelicate, and fast-moving it can be because each day is an adventure in itself for the unexpectedness and the variety embedded into it. Sometimes, the smallest things make us smile like a wild bird bending its long, thin neck to look at us. At other times, we get so mad at the goings on in the national and international arenas that we want to throw something at our TVs or we decide to never show a cheery face to someone in our lives but give up doing that after our annoyances evaporate.

As writers, though, life is always a journey for us because, being different from anyone else, we watch and learn faster and we treat each incident as something to file in our usables folder. Thus, while doing that, we inspire our readers, the same way we inspire ourselves, to be tied tighter to the spirit of being human.