A journey is not a trip.
It's not a vacation.
It's a process. A discovery.
It's a process of self-discovery.
A journey brings us face to face with ourselves.
A journey shows us not only the world, but how we fit in it.
Does the person create the journey
or does the journey create the person?
The journey is life itself.
Where will life take you?
As I sat through the previews in the solitary penumbra of an Atlanta movie theater these words from the latest Louis Vuitton ad campaign resonated heavily in my consciousness. I had just moved to Atlanta a week earlier and was still dizzy from all my failed attempts to gain my bearings in this town. Without any specific plans and no one as my guide in a city of 5.4 million I had embarked on my next big journey, and the challenges that were presented to me in my first week as an Atlantan had worn me out.
I fell into the semi-conscious state that overcomes a person when they are overly tiered. There was no shame in this as I was the only cinema patron that Monday night. The Louis Vuitton pre-view had temporarily embossed it self in my mind, a clear sign that it is an effective piece of marketing. It had inspired dreams of events I had lived through earlier that summer.
These dreamlike recollections made it evident I had been exposed to some important happenings during my first summer as a college graduate, but in the world wind of decisions that were begging to be made, I had failed to identify the knowledge that was being imparted on me. Thankfully this advertisement had served as the catalyst to reawaken the part of my brain that provides me with enough imagination to break down, and decipher: advice given; and events lived into a relatively elementary, and basic lesson from which I can call on its precedence as well as previous outcome to help me make decisions… Some people call this "experience".
I fell into the semi-conscious state that overcomes a person when they are overly tiered. There was no shame in this as I was the only cinema patron that Monday night. The Louis Vuitton pre-view had temporarily embossed it self in my mind, a clear sign that it is an effective piece of marketing. It had inspired dreams of events I had lived through earlier that summer.
These dreamlike recollections made it evident I had been exposed to some important happenings during my first summer as a college graduate, but in the world wind of decisions that were begging to be made, I had failed to identify the knowledge that was being imparted on me. Thankfully this advertisement had served as the catalyst to reawaken the part of my brain that provides me with enough imagination to break down, and decipher: advice given; and events lived into a relatively elementary, and basic lesson from which I can call on its precedence as well as previous outcome to help me make decisions… Some people call this "experience".
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