I believe every journey has its destination, including our life's journey. We seek something to achieve as our life´s goal i call it as our life´s destination.
Some of us will see popularity, wealth, and power, as a destination, meanwhile some others are trying to reach happiness, family, or even passion as the end line of their journey. Our destination could be something that makes us feel safe, satisfied, and just like finding a home to stay. There are nothing wrong or right in setting the destination of our journey, but there will be a right or wrong way to reach it. As times goes by, when we realize what important in our journey is, it could affect our destination too so that we will change our destination from one point to somewhere else.
I would like to share a bit of my journey to reach my life's destination. I always think about how I can help others. That was a reason behind why i took Psychology as my major in university. I reached my destination as a Psycholog, but things didn't run as my will. Actually it was so hard to work as a young clinical Psycholog without any relations and also experiences in my country. Some conditions also changed, i had to move to another country with new language that i haven't known before and with a totally different culture too. I really don't have any talents in language, but i keep trying to learn it. Unfortunately and honestly, because of other barriers also, i lost my passion to have a carrier as a Psycholog, i feel like i am facing a high wall that blocked my way and i don't have any energy more to climb or even to destroy it.
After a while, it makes me think a lot what i want to do and where i should go. Then i realize now what i really want to do in my life. I change my destination. I love writing since I was teenager and it makes me feel alive and excited everyday. I thought before writing was just a hobby for me. I love to think what kind of writing that could inspire people.. So I set my final destination as a writer from now on.
Every destination has its own distance. For some people, perhaps their destinations are only few steps from them, but for some people, included me, our destinations are like a million miles away, so it might need years to reach it and it might also seem impossible, but i believe nothing is impossible if we want to try.
What we need to do is just taking a single step day by day. There will be no journey started without any single step. Just like building a house, it starts by putting brick by brick on the ground. It may take months or even years to finish it, but if we keep walking, we will reach our destination.
We might lose our hope or even spirit to reach it because of the distance seems so unreachable. I remember something that makes me stronger and encourage me. Have you ever heard a story about "Footprints in the Sand"? It tells about two people walking on a beach, one was the writer and the other was God. At the first time, the writer saw two pairs of footprints in the sand, the writer´s footprints and God´s. But then, after a while, especially, the most hopeless moment in the writer´s life, she saw only a set of footprints. Then the writer asked to God, why was there only be a set of footprints in the most troublesome and saddest moments in the writer´s life, as if God left the writer walk alone while, but God already promised to walk with the writer when the writer decided to follow Him. Then God answered that it was because He carried her during that hard moment.
This story reminds me that I am not alone in reaching my destination. There will be hard times, but I will keep remembering that I never walk alone. It´s not only God who always carries me, but also some people who support me, they are my family. The other important things that i learnt from the story is they keep moving forward, no matter how hard the moments were. I believe that there will be those moments in our life, that we we lose our hope in reaching our destination. It´s okay to take a rest for a while, collect our energy by trying to find something interesting in our journey and remembering the feeling when we decided to start our first step and also the feeling that we will feel when we reach our destination. It´s also important to find a travel companion who will always support and encourage us. After that, we should keep moving forward.
At the end, I believe that my journey is quite far, but I will keep moving forward. That´s why I keep writing, even though none reads it. I believe that one day people will see it and those people will lead me to reach my destination. I know that there is a possibility also about failing to reach it, but what important is I do my best to reach it so I will never regret the result. I will leave my footprints everywhere as a sign of my journey so that people will notice my journey and my effort to reach it.
