I finally saw a rainbow that day. After a long long while. 3 years?
There're many many stories about the rainbow. Someone reminded me of one the other day in camp, which left me in deep thoughts for the entire night.
The story tells that at the end of the rainbow, lies the secret hiding place for leprechaun's pot of gold. But no one has ever reached, or even seen the end of the rainbow. Those who chased a rainbow before, you'll know how the more you walk towards the rainbow, the further it'll move away.
The end of the rainbow is an impossible dream, something that we can only seem to stretch and stretch and yet, never reach it. It’s not being pessimistic, it’s Science.
If you know that something is impossible, will you still do it?
If you know you can never ever reach it, will you still keep walking towards it?
If you know it might take you a lifetime, will you still believe in it?
Then he reminded me. More than often, deep down within each of us, there’s always an ‘impossible’ dream. Are you going to give up just cos of the impossibility of the idea? Just because you can’t reach it or you going to turn back and walk away?
It’s when we all forgot.
It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.
It made me stop and think hard.
And I remembered that the journey towards it intrigued me more than the destination did.
I remembered those moments when my heart skipped a beat.
I remembered those times where there was only me in the journey, yet I felt like I had everything I wanted. What’s spending a lifetime searching for those moments?
Remember……
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by every moment that takes your breath away.
It’s not about the end.
It’s the journey towards it.
Take a look back sometimes. Instead of seeing how far there is to go, it’s good to turn around at times to see how far you’ve come. See how far you’ve walked from the other end of the rainbow instead. See how far you’ve walked from the ‘beginning’ of the other side instead.
Every end can be a beginning as well. Its how you choose to see it, isn’t it?
And more importantly.
Enjoy the process :]
P.S. I saw the end already. But I'm still walking and walking. And walking.
