Always Preparing for the Journey?

As I write this we are about to set off for a 2-week trip back home to the midwest, and I’m knee-deep still in preparations. The last two weeks in our house have been full of email prep, house prep, paying bills prep, making arrangements for the dog prep, laundry prep, work prep ... an unending (at least it seems) litany of things that are on our checklists to get ready for being gone.

The list is actually getting smaller, and there are many things that aren’t necessarily crucial ‘must dos’ that we’ll tackle after we get back.

But as I sit here up to my knees something occurred to me.

How many people never get there? How many people spend so much of their time ‘getting ready for’ the journey and rarely get to experience the trip?

I’m not talking in a physical sense - more of a philosophical one. But it is an important question to consider, I believe.

We can get so consumed with the ‘must dos’ that we can keep ourselves from reaching the ‘get to dos’ in life. We look at jumps in the journey, sometimes, as challenges to be ‘tackled’ and overcome, instead of approaching them with anticipation and excitement - looking forward to what lies around the bend.

How are you approaching things in your life? Are you so caught up in the ‘must dos’ that you experience each day that you can’t see or experience the ‘get to dos?’

Posted 05.27.2009

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