Well, I haven't met a single person so far on the face of this planet who agrees with me that journey is more important than destination. People around me seem to be so obsessed with victory that they won't take anything other than a victory for a result. Everything they do ...the worth of it they decide on the basis of just victory or defeat. I wonder .. I may be wrong but why is it like that. I mean why should defeat overshadow the efforts we have put in achieving something. Why is that the journey counts to nothing in face of defeat ??
There is a saying that 'End should justify the mean' ... even if those means are wrong. I don't agree with that and, I'm not sure about the others but I can't bask in the success if the road to it has been such. I would find it rather tough to look into the mirror in that case. But the world has changed or rather it has been always such otherwise why would such a saying would have become a common parlance. At times I find myself so alone in the midst of all these wolves ... I might be exaggerating and there must be many non-wolves out there but most of the people out here seem to be like that.
Journey to me is more important than the destination. Defeat and despair are bound to come in this life because not everything we do or try may turn up right. But just because the things are not turning right that doesn't mean that they won't eventually. And why should in the face of defeat I believe that the whole journey was a farce or it counted to nothing. Every journey is an experience in itself ... good or bad. Victory or defeat may be just momentous but the journey is not such. Why should we overlook something which is so permanent for something that is temporary. Why ... that is the question ?
If we can take pleasure in our success then we should be man enough to take defeat on the chin and go on and that could only happen if we don't become too obsessed with the destination rather enjoying every moment of the journey. You would win someday and on days you would end up losing but the effort that you have put in that cause should not be taken as something going to waste. Sometimes it takes time but the time is worth it.
Snow Patrol's Warmer Climate is what springs to my mind and especially the closing lines which seem so real and relevant :
'I'm so glad that this has taken me so long,
'coz its the journey that made me so strong. '
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ye kya keh diya yasser miya
yaad karo wo raat jab tumne mujhse is blog ka just opposite kaha tha
lemme remind u
I told u after exams that i fought the battle result will come latter but it wont matter as i fought the battle heroically
along that was the classic muhawara--
"girte hai shehsawar hi maidane jang mein
wo tifl kya girenge jo ghutno ke bal chale."
and in response to this u said
when u fight u have to win
aur aaj ye uska opposite aur usme bhi pahli line mein
"I haven't met a single person so far on the face of this planet who agrees with me that journey is more important than destination"
This is a lie
You didn't get it Jain. I still abide by what I said to you .You have to go in the battle with the belief of winning 'coz without that attitude you won't give your best shot. I believe it's a sin not to try to win, but if you have lost then that doesn't mean that your effort went in vain. And ya about the statement that you mentioned. I forgot that incident so may be I would have to edit it. Thanks anyways. I really appreciate your comments.
Yasser Miyan.. well said. I believe in what you have written..and I also agree ki you should aim to win. But again who decides what is right or wrong, as in when you give your everything, in that "everything" one might use a ploy, a prop or something which is disapproved by others but not by you.. they will claim you won by unfair means and they could also claim that victory for you was sweeter than to not use the ploy,prop etc and face the prospect of defeat.. you on the other hand shall bask in your own glory :)
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