Its not the path but the destination

What holds us back, sometimes inertia stops us from doing what we want to do. Sometimes it is fear that stops forward progress. As we get older, fear and inertia become bigger enemies. I have a friend who has been diagnosed with vascular dementia and he has been told that he has about 2 to 3 years before he starts to forget. He is taking this well, now but as he becomes more forgetful my hope is that he will realize that it is best to live in the moment.

When my wife was recovering from her brain aneurysm for the first two weeks she lived moment to moment, because she had no long term or short term memory and as she recovered she was able to extend those moments. Remember as we get older it is not the day we have to manage,  but each moment in that day.  

We all have fears that hold us back. When I was younger I dreamed of slaying many dragons and righting many wrongs, as I grew older, not wiser I sought out those dragons and found they were easier to slay then I thought. But now that I am older and I hope wiser I realized that it was not only the dragon I had to slay, but I also had to slay the fear of the dragon first. Once I slew the fear, the dragon could be killed or tamed, which I did more than I killed. 

We have all in our lives set goals, big goals, small goals, and many of us over the years have spent time learning how to set those goals, make them SMART goals so we could achieve our goals, or dreams. As I think about the wonder of life, I realize that there are many paths to achieve our goals and many of us spend too much time worrying about the path, when we should focus on the destination.  What a relief, huh?