When trying to achieve goals which one is the most important to you. The struggle or the prize? Why??
2007-07-23 07:07:46 · 11 answers · asked by phrenitus 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I've had both experiences. I used to dance. Working towards the performances were wonderful--but after they were over there was let-down---a kind of void of energy and drive and loss of purpose connected with the end of the experience.
But then I spent a summer in Thailand among tribal peoples once, two and a half months without a hot bath or shower. Afterwards I remember sitting in the shower stall at Y in Hong Kong just letting the hot water roll over my body========for a whole half hour. It was lovely. But all my memories of the whole two and half months were lovely, too. No let down, except I didn't want to leave.
Perhaps it is because dance is essentially self-absorbed, and the other experience was other-absorbed that the two experiences were so different. I think when we are other-absorbed the completion, or the victory, has it's power because of the struggle. Dance was complete in itself--the doing was everything.
Maggie
2007-07-23 07:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A deeper look into the matter would reveal that there is no such division of joy in human endeavors in life, and for life, as a destination is a place where all further journeys begin - the best place to live is the place that give dreams of many wonderful places.
If your journey towards some normally recognized destination that then would be the dream that you journey towards, and once you reach the land of your dreams your will realize that you can see along further distances ahead promising you destinations even better still.
When, for instance, you are thousands of miles away from home you journey and that journey is real, it has it own delights and sorrows, but when you get home you feel overwhelmingly joyous and happy ... not only because you have got what you traveled for, but also because home is the place where a more substantial journey is taking place, a journey with your loved ones to further destinations of better dreams.
No journey or a destination is absolute in joy, but all journeyers can aim to the completion in joy and happiness.
2007-07-23 07:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holy crap...you sound like one of my English instructors from college.
So...grasshopper...here is what I have learned. It is neither the journey or the destination that brings the most joy, but the memories of both. The only prize is "satisfaction." When you can look back over the time line for your life and agree that everything you done has brought you to a delightful 'denouement' then your prize has been achieved.
Struggle and obstacle is just the universe's way of keeping you on the right path and teaching you the right lessons.
OHM...
2007-07-23 07:16:36 · answer #3 · answered by SuzieQ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the journey matters more than the ultimate prize. if i do not struggle...but manage to recieve an award anyway...the award does not matter. but if i struggled and worked hard and then STILL lost...the journey alone is enough to make me proud. i have also learned that if you focus to much of the prize that lies at the end...u forget to enjoy every moment of the journey that brings you there. in the end...u will be happiest is you concentrate on enjoying the moment (o rthe journey) instead of looking at the future (or the prize) and forgetting what is happening around you.
2007-07-23 07:17:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if you get there without the Journey you will never have the satisfaction of the memories of the journey that fuel the intense satisfaction of the destination. You know. At the same time how can you help it if you family journeyed and made it but doesn't want you to have to go through those struggles they did.
2007-07-23 10:57:26 · answer #5 · answered by Travis James 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say the journey, it's what you learn along the way that teaches you lessons for life. I'm on a personal journey right now and i've cried many a tear over some things that's happened to me, but it's made me a stronger person and it continues to make me stronger on a daily basis. The lessons you learn while trying to achive your goals are priceless, you may have to sacrifice something that's very dear to your heart in order to get what you want and there lays the challenge that you'll either keep going towards what you want or to fall short of your goal!
2007-07-23 07:39:28 · answer #6 · answered by ~Twisted Sister~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the struggle is the most important thing to me because without the struggle, i wouldn't be able to enjoy the prize at the end. If there wasn't a struggle, i could get the prize as if it were a piece of pizza, and it wouldn't mean as much to me
:-)
2007-07-23 07:17:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both are equally important to me. I love the struggle as much I love the prize. I know that without one the other won't exist.
2007-07-23 07:15:10 · answer #8 · answered by Crashovdr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The journey IS the goal
2007-07-23 07:34:57 · answer #9 · answered by Don W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the achievement.
you can have the "prize"
2007-07-23 07:17:32 · answer #10 · answered by ỉη ץ٥ڵ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋