A little journey called LIFE

            I never would have imagined that when I chose my English literature class it would be something as significant and incredible as this class has been for me in my life. The last thing you think when you see a class named “Journey in literature” is that you will actually talk about journeys that people may have. In my case a thought it would be about how we can go in a kind of like journey though the reading of literature. But for my surprise the class was about everything that had to do with journeys, from the different types of journeys that we have daily until the kinds of people that have journeys.

            This class has opened my eyes to a whole new world I would have never thought that I was living. It has helped me change my perspective upon life itself. Now, I see everything that I live and that surrounds me as a journey. I have learned that every path and every challenge we have in our lives is a new journey that we live each day. I now know that life itself is a journey with an arrival day but with an expiration date we do not now. This is why we have to live each day as if it were our last and it is something really amazing to see each day a new journey in which we discover, learn, accomplish, and overcome different things.

            In my life I have had a lot of journeys both internal and external and if I had to choose my favorite ones from the pictures that I have on my Journey Journal I would choose one of my favorite external journey which has my trip to Spain in 2011 to the World Youth Day which was also for everyone a really strong internal journey and an unforgettable experience. I would also choose the pictures that represent my daily journeys, with my family, with my friends and with my love journey with my boyfriend. I would choose this because the best kinds of journeys that we have are those that are with our loved ones. The last picture I would choose would be the one where I am giving a talk to a group of teenagers in my church because helping others and talking to them about God is a journey that I have every day in my life because God is always the center of my days.

            This Journey Journal has been the thing that has helped me the most throughout the class to understand what journeys are about and to see life as a journey each day. Through writing in the journal I could think as a traveler and live as one each day. This is an incredible experience and I hope I always keep doing it or at least have it in mind. Internal and external journeys was something that I also learned to differentiate with the journal because I noticed that every day I had different internal journeys but also that in every external journey that I had I also experienced an internal journey. Do you know why? Probably your answer is right. It is all because we live in a little journey called LIFE.