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To those who think you need a destination to begin a journey and/or that the destination is more important because otherwise there would be no point making the journey, I respectfully disagree.
There are many things people do on a whim. Spontaneous road trip? Trying a new dish/cuisine? Frivolous sex? There are short-term "destinations" in all these activities and more, but they need not necessarily be part of a bigger, more important framework of goals or destinations one wishes to achieve.
Yes, of course, ambition and an end-goals are admirable things. But there are other aspects to this whole journey-destination discourse, one of them being sometimes the destination could really suck (without you necessarily knowing it ahead of time, either).
Point in case, a few months ago I wrote a novel. It didn't start off as a novel, I was just putting some thoughts down and before I knew it I had 20,000 words. It sucked. But I did it, not necessarily to go anywhere with it. It now sits on my hard drive and I haven't taken a look at it since, but it was fun to have worked on it.
Pragmatism is cool and all, but it takes the fun out of things sometimes.
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