As my thoughts came to me on my way home from work, on the quiet highway, I realized, there is nothing like “arrival/I’ve arrived” in this life. At any moment in time, we are always striving for more. Whenever we achieve a certain aim, after a while we look for the next task to conquer or the next achievement. You never really done in this life. At any point of an achievement, there is a need to strive for more so how then do you arrive?
In the days when we were so eager to finish school and we thought that was going to be it. Then we had to look for a job, make a living and strive for the very best than we were before. This cycle makes it quite clear that, arriving in life is quite delusional and probably temporary and not a concept we should allow in our daily spaces.
Consider an immigrant, who then must look for a job/school, afterwards find a means of transport, then makes aim to buy a house, make an investment back home, find a partner, have kids, raise these kids and other continuous tasks that may arise. So technically, there is no destination in the future that is to come. In this scenario, any one achievement leads to another and makes the process unending. At no point in time does he end/settle after one milestone, therefore making an arrival interminable.
It is important to celebrate one’s accomplishments, but it is also an equal opportunity window for what is to come. Always know that, the arrival is in the process, otherwise everything else is like chasing the wind. To say, one has arrived at a moment in life is temporary and always a step to the next arrival moment. God made the world in such a way that nothing is static.
Written by Barbara K K