Humans are journey-making creatures.

Yuval Noah Harari describes how there were once tens of thousands of “worlds” within our planet. As Humans made their journeys, these other worlds disappeared to one another.  The last major world to be integrated into our “one world” was Tasmania.

Have we become more Human as a result?

We are now on the brink of journeying into space.

Journey is a powerful metaphor we use in other ways, too.  We travel through life by growing older, changing work, meeting new and different people, facing challenges, serving.  The best journeys are transformative, help us to become, to change, to grow.

‘Struggling through the production of Toy Story 2 twisted our heads around, causing us to look inward, to be self-critical and to change the way we thought about ourselves.’*

It’s not so much about entering the journey, but the journey entering us, when it changes us.

Every day can be a transformative journey, capable of changing us – just a little.  What are the new ideas, who are the new people, where are there different sequences offering us an opportunity to stretch and become.  And tomorrow, there’ll be another day.

Create, give, enjoy.

(*From Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc..)