Life is a journey, not a destination

We all seem to live with a goal in mind. Some are big goals, some are little goals, whichever drives you I know you will have to admit that there is always a destination in sight. "When I'm older I will do things my way and life will be great, when I graduate high school I will have the freedom to pursue what I choose and life will be great, when I get that ideal job, life will be great, when the kids are more independent, life will be great, if I could just get that promotion, life will be great, When I retire, we can travel and do whatever and life will be great". Sound familiar? We all think that once we accomplish the next goal we will have arrived. We seem to move this way continually throughout our lives, never learning that we never get there. Every accomplishment seems to attach itself to a new destination.

We're All Doomed

I'm sure every generation has faced the sense that they would be the final generation to exist on earth. There has always been the end looming through the history of time. The end has always been nigh. I remember the dark sense of my environment during the time of the Vietnam war, radiating from those of my parent's generation. I remember having a sense that Nixon was the face of the end. These senses filled me with the dark, cold panic of nothingness, as if soon nothing would be left but the low, pounding vibrations of my deserted heart in a cold mist that kept me from breath...and the fear was born. The same messages still reach my ears. 2012 will be the last year for us... Again the end is nigh.
So what of it? Mankind can usually find a way to plod along on this earth through every generation that thinks it's the last, so I wont so easily be sold on the end this time, but what if it is? If you think about it... It really is.