Although the destination is significant, the journey is far more important. A person's identity and the destination itself are shaped by the obstacles and experiences encountered during their journey. The experiences and obstacles are necessary to the journey, whereas the destination is not because sometimes one journey leads to another, and the destination doesn't exist.
When I was a young boy, I would always go to visit my grandparent's farm. I would walk the fields with my grandpa checking on the crops, trotting along all the way to the other side of the farm where the cows were. I would always complain about how aggravating it was to do this every morning and how much I desired to get it done and be back at the house. One day, while I moped querulously along with my grandfather, he turned to me and said "Why do you always complain about our walk? " Being the "wise " child, I was retorted "Because we do this every morning and we never even find anything wrong! What's the point of all this wasted effort? " My grandpa told me "There is no effort wasted here " our walks are about more than just doing routine checks on the crops and animals. It was about spending quality time together and enjoying the few beautiful summer mornings we get to spend with one another a year. At the time I didn't quite understand his meaning, all I could think was, we could have enjoyed time together back at the house too! As I grew older life was still always about the destination for me. It wasn't until some years later when I went on another routine walk with my grandpa we had this same conversation, and I realized, life doesn't always have to be about getting where you're going. Sometimes you have to take a step back and live in the moment.
In the acclaimed novel "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien, there is a young hobbit named Bilbo. Hobbits like Bilbo despised adventures and journeys, for they were seen as frivolous and distasteful things.
