Travels of life…

This past week I’ve traveled across the country for both business and personal reasons and the process of travel has made me reflect on how we travel and what it means.

If we travel by car, for example, we generally travel across shorter distances (in a certain amount of time), but you get a sense of the topography and you get to look out the window, enjoy the ride and maybe even get out and talk to people who live in the places through which you travel.

On the other hand, if you travel by plane, you can generally cover longer distances faster, you may be in a cramped space, and can look out the window, but maybe not get as much of a sense of the places through which you travel, nor an idea of the people who reside in the places you travel past.

Neither is better, but as a metaphor for life, both methods of travel have their time and place.  At times, travel by car is more pleasant, enlightening and reflective.  At other times, plane travel is more efficient, reasonable and comfortable.  Both are necessary.

How do you travel through life?  Which way do you enjoy more, and why?  Do you enjoy the process and get to enjoy the scenery?  Or do you prefer to move more quickly and cross greater distances?

I hope you’re enjoying our journeys this year as we meander through the stories and places that each of the women tell us about.

I look forward to meeting you along the path…