Enjoying the Journey

This is a lesson I'm learning, dealing with a particular weakness I sometimes show of thinking about where I want to be or need to be and not enjoying the moment. Simple example: you're walking to buy groceries at the supermarket, but you don't think of enjoying the walk on the way. Aha! Now you know what I'm talking about. It seems so trivial, but so true. How much of your life is spent in transition as you think towards what is ahead? In fact, we do the same with our jobs - our thoughts are on the evening fun or the weekend and we wait for the seven or eight hours of work to pass by so we can get to the fun part. If you add it all up, you'll find that an incredibly large amount of your life is spent in transition to something else. We've heard sayings like "life's a journey, enjoy the ride", but have we really grasped just how far that can be followed through? My simple desire is to begin to enjoy the journey more. In some cases that's the literal journey, sitting on a bus, walking down the pavement, but in other cases that includes enjoying things I would never have thought of as enjoyment before, like sweeping the floor or washing the dishes. What a thought!