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"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." Ursula K. LeGuin

The end of the JOURNEY approaches. You can feel it in your soul.
This is the moment, the culmination.
And then your tire blows out.
Thirty miles from the end of the JOURNEY.
It's the most frustrating thing in the history of the western world. At least to you it is.
It seems that the closer we get to the end of the JOURNEY the more we get focused on the end of the JOURNEY. We forget that the JOURNEY is what's important, and not the destination.
So those problems and issues that seemed funny or humorous at one end seem life altering and scary at the other end of the JOURNEY.
We need to relax and realize that the JOURNEY is still worthwhile, even thirty miles from our destination.
There are still things to learn, even when we're only 30 miles away.