Have you been on a journey?

I'm on a journey now. Fraught with danger and obstacles.
The school run!

I don't watch any of the programmes that use this phrase, so didn't realise it was getting hackneyed! I used it in conversation recently and was surprised to hear "can't stand that phrase" which I thought a bit rude! It was explained to me (and I still think it a bit rude!)
I often use the phrase 'life's journey', a rather old-fashioned term I thought, but apt, and goes back to the opening line of The Inferno (I think) and certainly the idea is used in Pilgrim's Progress.
So I think I'll keep using it, and wait for it to drop out of fashion.

I suppose life is a journey.
But we all only have a one-way ticket.

I went on one this morning . Tesco' s and back

My stepson is doing the Camino walk. It takes a lot of perseverence and he is meeting people and learning a lot en route and enjoying it. One of the group said that although they are doing it together everyone is doing their own Camino walk. I think that is true of life.

DD2's Bil is doing the Camino walk too. He has lost his heart to someone he met on the way and they are going back to the beginning to start their journey together.

How romantic kitty

I went to the C0-op this morning...I wouldn't describe it as a journey exactly....but …. :-)

It remains to be seen, Annie! He's been in love a few times in the short time I've known him but he did start the journey looking for something.

My daughter took me to Lakeside, along with grandson today, that was quite an epic journey with me being still on crutches!!!

Worth it for some pampering in th Jo Malone shop though ??

When I have my scooter I will go on a journey to the garage for a newspaper ?

Have not ‘ been on a journey ‘ or ‘ found myself’ , for those I would need lots of ‘me time’ something else that seems to elude me recently!

I’ve been journeying round the house looking for my car keys. I did find them and, as a bonus, I found my’legacy’!

I journeyed around a car park once for almost 20 minutes looking for my car.
Then realised that I hadn't taken my car.

For myself and when working with others I have always found the analogy of a "journey" as a helpful way of looking at life's twists and turns.

There are times in our life when we are passengers - when we were young, ill, affected by trauma, old and so on.

Then there are those times when we are the ones in control of our life and often the lives of others, parents, workers ...

There are times when we do get ourselves safely through some difficult situations. Times when we feel "stuck" and can't get things going.

Then those awful times that when a situation in our lives feel like a car crash, when it feels like a 16 wheeler has just driven through our life. All our plans, hopes, normality changed or gone.

How we come back from setbacks and move forward can feel like putting a vehicle back together, be it shanks' pony, a push bike, a flash sports car, horse drawn carriage or boat etc.

And I have found it very helpful to get people to think about what positions they have taken in their lives and how they changes things.

So I will be continuing to use the analogy as life as a "Journey", the "Journey Through" as in FROM illness, trauma etc TO any better, healthier time and place in the person's life.

Someone not so long ago posted about how life can turn on a sixpence. Yes it can. We no longer have sixpences but us here on GN understood what that person meant and we felt for them.

So life as a "journey" works for me. But I do not like some of the ways it's used so I can agree with much of what's already been said.

However, I don't need to take a journey to find myself, if I'm lost I either won't know or I'll trust that I can find my way back to where I left me :-)

Goodness Kittylester starting again!! They must be truly in love!

I have visited a dozen cities in Russia and they are all wonderful places to visit (always use this travel agency rusrailtravel.ru/trans-siberian). The ones that stand out in my mind are.

Nizney Novgorod. Lots of cool things to see. They have their own Kremlin which is cool and lots of things to see and do.

Sochi is pretty cool. You will see palm trees there and people swimming in winter

Yetkartinberg is another cool place. I wish they would have left the house where the Czar and his family were murdered which would have been a neat thing but they only have a marker where it was. Still a neat city to visit.

I haven’t been to Lake Baikal but I am sure anyone who visits there won’t be disappointed

There are lots more.

You'll find those that go on a journey usual suffer a rollercoaster of emotions while finding themselves!

Loving this post

Such a lot of pretensious clap trap spoken now adays by those in the media and many younger trendy people.

We have all been on a 'journey' some shorter than others, it is called life!!!!

I m still looking for myself
I too have muddled through most of the time sliding headfirst down a big hill to a massive bump at the bottom check myself nothing broken and start up the hill all over again

My life journey seems to be on a slow moving treadmill . I never stop. Just when I think I’m nearing the end I’m back where I started and get nowhere at all .

There was a so called happiness guru speaking on the radio yesterday and instead of embracing all that she said, I just felt this incredible need to hot foot it to the radio station and give her a hard slap !

I still say I have not been on a journey, I have experienced highs and very dark lows, I muddled through, sometimes alone sometimes with support,

Maybe it's the education that we give children that has resulted in this, there are an awful lot of hymns sung about life's journey- One more step, The Journey of Life etc. Perhaps we can't blame them if they then use the expression as they get older.

I like the phrase too. To me it relates to the journeys of the Hebrews from Egypt to the Promised Land, at the end of the book of Numbers. Even though the Promised Land wasn't quite what they had expected.
Like our journey through life, and we're always harking back to the 'Good Old Days'. But try to make the best of the present imo.