Gift of Journey

When we enter life we enter into an unknown world, where we were are given the gift of days to take life’s journey, where we would have time to accomplish and enhance our self being with experiences, knowledge and love, and then to pass on that knowledge, love, and experiences, to first, our children, secondly to friends, and third to humanity.

Sounds grand I know, but that is the reality and whether we do or we don’t make the most of our journey, which is solely up to us, the gift of journey is a free pass.

Use it wisely or waste it. Use it or lose it.

Along the way on our journey of life, roadblocks get in our way that can slow us down. The detours we take are put before us so that we can gain experience, we can absorb, and we can better enjoy the paths that we choose to take each day.

Each day of our journey, we take a sleep pause; our dreams take over at that point, so we can subconsciously plan out the next gift of day through life’s journey. That sleep pause is a must, given as a gift as well, to allow us to reflect on the previous day's walk, and make the adjustments we need to in our mind, so that we can continue on a road designed just for us where doors open and doors close.

We alone choose the path through the doors, or decide to keep going in a straight line and ignore the doorways.

We are all born into different life situations, on different parts of the planet, with different challenges, and different genes, which makes us all unique from one another. We choose our paths to take and/or ignore the ones that don’t reflect our desires.

At an older age, I realized that my future path would be different, that I wanted to explore, understand more of the world, understand because of my interaction with the great people of Montreal, where the wonderful people who I have met, originated from, exploring the culture, the path, that led them on the journey to Canada, to Montreal.

Through extensive travels, I realize that the world is small, that people from all countries are walking on their journey and that the more we think we are different, the more I think that we are the same. We all have hopes we want to fulfill, and we all are looking for qualities of life, a safe life, a fulfillment rich with being.

Travel photography allows me to chronicle my journeys, where I can stop time with a click, I can share time with a click, and I can print time with a click.

There are other journeys besides the overall journey of life, which includes all the journeys into one.

Inner journey is an exploration of self, the mind, and spirit.

Physical journey is an exploration of our world and what’s tangible meaning through our senses.

Imaginative journeys are of inspiration, speculation, and everything to do with the impossible.

These journeys can take place all at once, or separately, ignoring two out of the three if you wish, or the freedom to choose all three or any combination thereof.

The secrets of a successful journey of life is to enjoy today, plan tomorrow, and use your strengths, by creating memories that mean something and discarding memories that don’t, that way you will have room for a more fulfilling life.

Last thing I want is not to have MY journey of life based on someone else’s journey.