The poem suggests that the journey itself can be a source of happiness and fulfillment, rather than just the attainment of a particular goal. It suggests that the process of learning and growing, and the experiences we have along the way, can be just as important as the end result.
In Greece we learn this poem at school. One of the few that has stayed with me. This author has many other great poems such as "The City", "Walls", "Waiting for the barbarians", "Thermopylae" etc
The ability to appreciate the process more than the outcome is a result of extensive inner work. At the end of the road when the journey outshines the destination, you suddenly realise how much you've truly grown ❤️
The longing to a bygone Byzantium is a really strong feeling I have just like the longing for other eras of Greek history where I feel nostalgia for a time I haven't lived
Congratulations for this post. Kavafy is one of the most admired poets in Greece. So much wisdom in his poems. Personally, i love his poem "Oso Boris" which means "As much as you can". Thank you for another well thought-out video!! Keep up the great work!
@@STINAfreemusica Here it is! Obviously my rendition of a pre-existing translation - just like any act of translation in general - cannot possibly capture all the magic of the original piece, but here it is nonetheless! :) And if you can't shape your life how you want, try this at least as much as you can: do not degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Do not degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily folly of social events and interactions, until it becomes like a foreign burden.
I really hope that this video helps thousands of people to discover the genius spirit of Constantine Cavafy. He should have actually been placed among the top poets of all times, but unfortunately, since his poems were written in Greek, he remains unknown for most of the world. Thank you School of Life.
This video really touched me, as this is a poem I love deeply. I really needed to be reminded of it; thank you. Perhaps I should learn it by heart and say it to myself, like a prayer.
Some times I am very grateful for being greek and having been exposes to themes like this since childhood, it really does set one up for a more stoic view of the world, if one is sensitive enough to it.
While I think there’s a certain amount of wisdom to this poem, for many people there is little joy to be found in ‘the journey’. Telling someone who is in addiction, or an abusive relationship, or a debt spiral that life is for enjoying in the present rather than when they’ve reached a better place is not only unhelpful, but is wilfully ignorant of their struggle.
The present is absolutely important and healthy to be in. However, with our modern way of living the future is where it's at and is what is keeping the species alive. We are bombarded with modern comfort. We now have different things to worry about and I am convinced that we didn't adapt fast enough with technological advancements in the last 100+ years. We are in a constant state of illusion and anxiety. 😔
......this assumes that the road leads past beautiful vistas and includes time to enjoy them and food and rest plentiful and available for leisure...........
Exactly. The best part of a dinner in a good restaurant ( by good I don't mean expensive) isn't the full belly at the end but the beginning from the bread and olives etc and looking through the menu.
'The Journey is more important than the destination' 'Be addicted to the process' Michael Phelps (Ok, he didn't technically say it, but he agreed to the concept of it...) Great video
Ithaka or Ítaca, as it's spelled in Catalan, is a recurring image of the Catalan culture, as far as I know ever since Lluis LLach did a song that starts with the first sentence of Cavafy's poem. Personally, this videos resonates with me. I dedicated over 10 years of my life, constantly struggling and anxious to reach a career goal that never was. I moved on to a new career plan where success came easily, and in this comfortable new status quo, my unconscious mind decided to revisit and unearth that decade that ended in failure. Oh, how painful this has been. However, I learned to appreciate the 10 years of adventure, discovery and growth, and how clearly, even if I redefined Ithaca, many of that wisdom is serving me well to travel to this new destination. Moreso, I wouldn't have chosen these goals had it not been for all the previous growth. I think it's time to flip the page, appreciate the past but not dwell in it.
"La felicidad no está en la posada sino en medio del camino" Don Quijote de La Mancha ( Year 1605, Miguel del Cervantes Saavedra. Spain) " Happiness is not to be found at the inn but in the middle of the path" says Don Quixote to Sancho, his sidekick.
The journey is the gift that keeps on giving, a new "top of the mountain" will appear at every turn.. one just has to imagine syllyphus happy, because he probably is, even through his sorrows 🤸🃏🌓
Nice, but weird take after meeting this idea just now. Unless you're one of those filled to the brim with tatoos, I'd suggest wait one or two years and check them if this idea still has that much meaning to you. Then go for it.
Most have heard this idea, that happiness is in the path not the destination. And I would agree. However, I think the issue is that to get that happiness along the path you need to have a destination that feels genuinely worthwhile to you and you need to feel that you are actually making progress towards it. There lies the difficulty for many if not most people, finding something in life that is genuinely worth achieving that you are capable of. They don't have an Ithaka to move towards so there is no path. I've always been envious of those that knew what they wanted from a young age. How much more satisfying life must be when you are moving towards a clear objective.
Brilliant. I guess Cavafy was trying to tell himself and others through that poem that it really is about the journey and not the destination. My favorite person on the subject of the Hero's Journey is Joseph Campbell. I used to use a very pared down version of Campbell's model of the Hero's Journey in some of the literature courses that I taught at an American university. A few of the major components are the call to action, initiation, divine intervention, and arrival or conclusion, but there are many other key parts along the way. These follow roughly along the standard arc of the narrative. Our hero sets out on a journey for various reasons, a common reason being that the hero is literally or figuratively orphaned. They are beset by various external and internal challenges and eventually arrive at their intended destination, but they are different people then because the challenges that they faced along the way changed them, usually for the better. It is "easy" to apply this model to classics like The Iliad and The Odyssey, but it can just as "easily" be applied to Harry Potter, the New Testament of the Bible, Star Wars, Napoleon Dynamite, and lots of Eastern texts that I am not going to name right now because I will misspell them. My literary area of specialization is the novel, the Victorian novel in particular, and I often applied Campbell's model when "digesting" Victorian novels, which Henry James aptly referred to as, "Baggy Monsters." For example, Pip is obviously on a Hero's Journey in Great Expectations. Likewise, Little Dorrit is on a Hero's Journey in the book of the same name. It is not always as "easy" to apply the model to heroines because their experiences are so informed by their prescribed roles as women, but it can be done. My favorite author, Virginia Woolf, never really wrote a book about a Hero's Journey per se, but I have always considered Lily Briscoe the hero of To the Lighthouse. My daughter Lily is named after Lily Briscoe. Woolf was a great admirer of James Joyce and Ulysses (Hogarth Press, which she ran with her husband Leonard Woolf was the Joyce's first publisher.), but she recognized that she could never write like him because they experienced and interpreted the world differently because of their genders, their nationalities, their class, and various other factors that shape us here during our experience as human beings on planet Earth. : ) Woolf's favorite writer was Proust, though. She said something like, "Reading Proust could make a writer want to give up writing, and yet I persist." Woolf felt constrained by her role as a woman, but she also considered many "domestic" activities quite heroic. While I have said that Woolf never wrote a proper Hero's Journey, the hero of Mrs. Dalloway is obviously Clarissa Dalloway, "for there she was." Clarissa is a person capable of creating an "exquisite moment" where intimacy is achieved and enjoyed by others, and I think Woolf considered this a heroic act, although she was neither capable of nor interested in being "heroic" in this way in her own life. Lily Briscoe similarly admires Mrs. Ramsay's ability to create an "exquisite moment" for others, but is neither interested in nor capable of doing this herself. I guess we all have the option of becoming the heroes or heroines of our own lives if we choose, and we will probably discover when we arrive at our destinations that it really was the journey that mattered. Ithaka must convey this, and I look forward to reading it now that I know about it. : ) Thank you School of Life for this and all that you do. I really appreciate your work.
@@εγεω Yes, I wrote it in a single thought. I have been writing most of my 58 years, and I have taught English, Academic Writing, and Literature at the secondary and university levels. How I write depends on the subject, the audience, the context, and my mood. Thanks for taking the time to comment. : )
@@kimberknutson831 I can relate to that. Sometimes something just hit the switch and floodgates are wide open. With a proper instigator, you have a proper fire sort of.
@@εγεω Yes, something like that. The content of this particular video, and the way that the School of Life interpreted and presented the subject matter just so happens to have touched on a few things that I have been thinking about for many years. Sometimes that happens, and I am always grateful for the "spark" that lights whatever "fire" has been smoldering for a long time. : )
There's a Mexican song by José Alfredo Jiménez called "El Rey" (The King). There's a little part in this song that shares the same idea of Ithaka: También me dijo un arriero, que no hay que llegar primero, pero hay que saber llegar": "Also, a mule driver told me that you don't have to arrive first, but you have to know how to arrive"
This is precisely what one of Karin Boye's (1900-1941) most famous poems is about. She is one of the most famous Swedish poets. The poem is from the collection Härdarna (1927) and is called "I rörelse" ("In motion"). The most famous line is "Visst finns det mål och mening med vår färd - men det är vägen som är mödan värd." (There surely is a goal and a meaning to our journey - but it is the way that is worth all the effort.) I rörelse Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst. Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst. Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd - men det är vägen, som är mödan värd. Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast, där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast. På ställen, där man sover blott en gång, blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång. Bryt upp, bryt upp! Den nya dagen gryr. Oändligt är vårt stora äventyr.
Reminds me of the movie UP. It was always about the journey.... not the goal. In case of the movie UP. He discovered he had memories of Ellie all along and created new ones with new people
Lovely! I have studied Romantic-era English poetry, as well as some more contemporary American poets, but I have never seen this work before. Thank you for bringing such a wonderful piece of poetry into my sphere of awareness!
If we believe the destination is a good ending. Then we can enjoy the whole journey. That's where faith and religion play their cards. People often fail to see the end. As they become miserable in the process. Not because lack of information. But lack of imagination.
It’s pretty logical really. When you work towards something, you’re achieving small goals along to way, giving you a feeling of growth. Which will be felt due to dopamine and endorphins released when you make those steps. When you’re at the destination you’ve reached what you wanted. Leading to no more goals, leading to no more release of dopamine and endorphins. Thus why it’s also important not to celebrate big wins. Just keep on working and fall in love with the process. On the other side, your happiness will actually increase when you own your house. That’s an Ithaka worth striving for. As also being fulfilling when you reach the goal. Because a home gives you security, safety and financial stability. Leading to less worries or anxieties.
To paraphrase the advise columnist, Anne Landers, who was most likely referencing numerous philosophers: "It is good to have an end towards which to journey, but it is the journey that matters most in the end."
This video looks and sounds like the oldest, most classical SoL videos. I like the newer ones but it is pleasant to feel a bit nostalgic watching this one.
Sadly this quite the opposite for me. I am stuck in one place, no way to go anywhere, no people to meet, nothing to see until I get financial stability. I am on the treadmill of life with tears in my eyes and both hands reaching out forward in a vain attempt to get to my goal.
I feel similar. Makes you wonder about the kind of privilege to just ‘go experience life’s adventure’. Yea sure this journey is great until life kicks the absolute shit out of you and beats you so far into the ground the only thing you know is stagnation and the opposite of adventure. There are no harbours, only one day to count off until the next and the next and the next.
i find alain to be a gift of existence for our times, he has flipped my life upside down. ohh what a man, hope one day i could see him.
💯💥
I love Alain too !
Who is Alain?..
Put some respect on his name: "Alain".
@@suzannahyoga the guy who do the voice in the video called Alain De Botton
"You should enjoy the little detours. To the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want." - Ging Freecss
Είμαστε περήφανοι για τον ποιητή μας!! As a Greek this is very moving
The poem suggests that the journey itself can be a source of happiness and fulfillment, rather than just the attainment of a particular goal. It suggests that the process of learning and growing, and the experiences we have along the way, can be just as important as the end result.
A+
This playlist (together with the Philosophies) is probably the best thing in youtube; hope they continue and cover all authors
"We'll have found our fulfillement along the way".. amen to that
As once said the philosopher Miley Cyrus:
"Ain't about how fast I get there. Ain't about what's waiting on the other side. It's the climb."
haha. philosopher miley cyrus.
Actually true for some. I like my philosopher Little Edie Beale
Awesome song
🤣
Miley is totally a philosopher. Well observed.
In Greece we learn this poem at school. One of the few that has stayed with me. This author has many other great poems such as "The City", "Walls", "Waiting for the barbarians", "Thermopylae" etc
The City is my favorite, and I feel there's some tension between them ( The City vs. Ithaka ). Or they complement each other.
@@diegovadell5707 I never thought of them this way. Thanks for the insight!
The City is awesome i think. Everytime i read it,i feel myself as a nomad who looks for somewhere to feel belonged.
Videos like this can be life changing. It’s amazing how much useful and helpful stuff is available from other kind people.
The ability to appreciate the process more than the outcome is a result of extensive inner work. At the end of the road when the journey outshines the destination, you suddenly realise how much you've truly grown ❤️
The longing to a bygone Byzantium is a really strong feeling I have just like the longing for other eras of Greek history where I feel nostalgia for a time I haven't lived
"Ithaka was the friends we made along the way"
Joy is in the journey, thank you
This teaches me to enjoy the now the presence
The future isn't promised to us. But it doesn't hurt to make plans
Congratulations for this post. Kavafy is one of the most admired poets in Greece. So much wisdom in his poems. Personally, i love his poem "Oso Boris" which means "As much as you can".
Thank you for another well thought-out video!! Keep up the great work!
Can you send me oso boris? I cant find it and Im curious now :)
@@STINAfreemusica
Here it is! Obviously my rendition of a pre-existing translation - just like any act of translation in general - cannot possibly capture all the magic of the original piece, but here it is nonetheless! :)
And if you can't shape your life how you want,
try this at least
as much as you can: do not degrade it
by too much contact with the world,
by too much activity and talk.
Do not degrade it by dragging it along,
taking it around and exposing it so often
to the daily folly
of social events and interactions,
until it becomes like a foreign burden.
@@TheEpicureanStoic It seems like this is even more relevan these days, superb.
Alain's voice can calm me of all my anxiety.
I really hope that this video helps thousands of people to discover the genius spirit of Constantine Cavafy. He should have actually been placed among the top poets of all times, but unfortunately, since his poems were written in Greek, he remains unknown for most of the world. Thank you School of Life.
Happiness is the way, not the destination
Finally the old school, school of life is back how I missed you
Present day is ok. Present in today where my feet plant me. Mental health steals so much. He is a notable writer and important to read his insights.
This video really touched me, as this is a poem I love deeply. I really needed to be reminded of it; thank you. Perhaps I should learn it by heart and say it to myself, like a prayer.
So nice to hear this voice soon again!
"It's not about the destination, it's about the journey."
Some times I am very grateful for being greek and having been exposes to themes like this since childhood, it really does set one up for a more stoic view of the world, if one is sensitive enough to it.
Ithika fits my life perfectly! 9 years on the road with no destination.
Ithaka makes you set out on your journey, but defining your Ithaka is so hard.
While I think there’s a certain amount of wisdom to this poem, for many people there is little joy to be found in ‘the journey’. Telling someone who is in addiction, or an abusive relationship, or a debt spiral that life is for enjoying in the present rather than when they’ve reached a better place is not only unhelpful, but is wilfully ignorant of their struggle.
One of my favorite poems and one my favorite channels in one video ❤️
The present is absolutely important and healthy to be in. However, with our modern way of living the future is where it's at and is what is keeping the species alive. We are bombarded with modern comfort. We now have different things to worry about and I am convinced that we didn't adapt fast enough with technological advancements in the last 100+ years. We are in a constant state of illusion and anxiety. 😔
Finally no clickbait, but actually illustrating what the title is all about
......this assumes that the road leads past beautiful vistas and includes time to enjoy them and food and rest plentiful and available for leisure...........
A lifetime is, at best, several lifetimes.
Don’t remember where I heard that, but this reminded me instantly. Lovely presentation, SoL. Cheers!
Exactly. The best part of a dinner in a good restaurant ( by good I don't mean expensive) isn't the full belly at the end but the beginning from the bread and olives etc and looking through the menu.
'The Journey is more important than the destination'
'Be addicted to the process' Michael Phelps (Ok, he didn't technically say it, but he agreed to the concept of it...)
Great video
Enjoy the process, because the destination will never be as satisfying as the process
The most powerful video of The School of Life. 👏
Ithaka or Ítaca, as it's spelled in Catalan, is a recurring image of the Catalan culture, as far as I know ever since Lluis LLach did a song that starts with the first sentence of Cavafy's poem. Personally, this videos resonates with me. I dedicated over 10 years of my life, constantly struggling and anxious to reach a career goal that never was. I moved on to a new career plan where success came easily, and in this comfortable new status quo, my unconscious mind decided to revisit and unearth that decade that ended in failure. Oh, how painful this has been. However, I learned to appreciate the 10 years of adventure, discovery and growth, and how clearly, even if I redefined Ithaca, many of that wisdom is serving me well to travel to this new destination. Moreso, I wouldn't have chosen these goals had it not been for all the previous growth. I think it's time to flip the page, appreciate the past but not dwell in it.
"La felicidad no está en la posada sino en medio del camino" Don Quijote de La Mancha ( Year 1605, Miguel del Cervantes Saavedra. Spain) " Happiness is not to be found at the inn but in the middle of the path" says Don Quixote to Sancho, his sidekick.
Im a greek poet....and that bastard Cavafy....he makes us all look untalented....
He was one of the best ❤️
The journey is the gift that keeps on giving, a new "top of the mountain" will appear at every turn.. one just has to imagine syllyphus happy, because he probably is, even through his sorrows 🤸🃏🌓
Awesome, never heard about this poem before. I’m now considering tattooing some reference to Ithaca.
At least read the poemas first dont ya think😅😅
@@mariaignacialeonor I did it before commenting here :) it’s really good
@@DSKJr18 Read more Kavafi. He was our Kafka.
Nice, but weird take after meeting this idea just now.
Unless you're one of those filled to the brim with tatoos, I'd suggest wait one or two years and check them if this idea still has that much meaning to you. Then go for it.
Nice one. Some things resonate with our lives and we want to capture that in art 💪
It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
Most have heard this idea, that happiness is in the path not the destination. And I would agree. However, I think the issue is that to get that happiness along the path you need to have a destination that feels genuinely worthwhile to you and you need to feel that you are actually making progress towards it. There lies the difficulty for many if not most people, finding something in life that is genuinely worth achieving that you are capable of. They don't have an Ithaka to move towards so there is no path.
I've always been envious of those that knew what they wanted from a young age. How much more satisfying life must be when you are moving towards a clear objective.
Thank you for this wonderful creation, really needed it.
Brilliant. I guess Cavafy was trying to tell himself and others through that poem that it really is about the journey and not the destination. My favorite person on the subject of the Hero's Journey is Joseph Campbell. I used to use a very pared down version of Campbell's model of the Hero's Journey in some of the literature courses that I taught at an American university. A few of the major components are the call to action, initiation, divine intervention, and arrival or conclusion, but there are many other key parts along the way. These follow roughly along the standard arc of the narrative. Our hero sets out on a journey for various reasons, a common reason being that the hero is literally or figuratively orphaned. They are beset by various external and internal challenges and eventually arrive at their intended destination, but they are different people then because the challenges that they faced along the way changed them, usually for the better. It is "easy" to apply this model to classics like The Iliad and The Odyssey, but it can just as "easily" be applied to Harry Potter, the New Testament of the Bible, Star Wars, Napoleon Dynamite, and lots of Eastern texts that I am not going to name right now because I will misspell them. My literary area of specialization is the novel, the Victorian novel in particular, and I often applied Campbell's model when "digesting" Victorian novels, which Henry James aptly referred to as, "Baggy Monsters." For example, Pip is obviously on a Hero's Journey in Great Expectations. Likewise, Little Dorrit is on a Hero's Journey in the book of the same name. It is not always as "easy" to apply the model to heroines because their experiences are so informed by their prescribed roles as women, but it can be done. My favorite author, Virginia Woolf, never really wrote a book about a Hero's Journey per se, but I have always considered Lily Briscoe the hero of To the Lighthouse. My daughter Lily is named after Lily Briscoe. Woolf was a great admirer of James Joyce and Ulysses (Hogarth Press, which she ran with her husband Leonard Woolf was the Joyce's first publisher.), but she recognized that she could never write like him because they experienced and interpreted the world differently because of their genders, their nationalities, their class, and various other factors that shape us here during our experience as human beings on planet Earth. : ) Woolf's favorite writer was Proust, though. She said something like, "Reading Proust could make a writer want to give up writing, and yet I persist." Woolf felt constrained by her role as a woman, but she also considered many "domestic" activities quite heroic. While I have said that Woolf never wrote a proper Hero's Journey, the hero of Mrs. Dalloway is obviously Clarissa Dalloway, "for there she was." Clarissa is a person capable of creating an "exquisite moment" where intimacy is achieved and enjoyed by others, and I think Woolf considered this a heroic act, although she was neither capable of nor interested in being "heroic" in this way in her own life. Lily Briscoe similarly admires Mrs. Ramsay's ability to create an "exquisite moment" for others, but is neither interested in nor capable of doing this herself. I guess we all have the option of becoming the heroes or heroines of our own lives if we choose, and we will probably discover when we arrive at our destinations that it really was the journey that mattered. Ithaka must convey this, and I look forward to reading it now that I know about it. : ) Thank you School of Life for this and all that you do. I really appreciate your work.
I love that you wrote it without trying to organize it in paragraphs. This shows me that you wrote it all in a single thought.
@@εγεω Yes, I wrote it in a single thought. I have been writing most of my 58 years, and I have taught English, Academic Writing, and Literature at the secondary and university levels. How I write depends on the subject, the audience, the context, and my mood. Thanks for taking the time to comment. : )
@@kimberknutson831 I can relate to that. Sometimes something just hit the switch and floodgates are wide open. With a proper instigator, you have a proper fire sort of.
@@εγεω Yes, something like that. The content of this particular video, and the way that the School of Life interpreted and presented the subject matter just so happens to have touched on a few things that I have been thinking about for many years. Sometimes that happens, and I am always grateful for the "spark" that lights whatever "fire" has been smoldering for a long time. : )
Depends how final that destination is...
As a half greek it makes me proud to see a greek author in here
Same
Pride is a sin.
@@blookolla shutup nigga
Life Is About The Journey, Not The Destination
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (and others)
This is one of my favorite poems.
Absolutely brilliant.
How brilliant, how timely!
There's a Mexican song by José Alfredo Jiménez called "El Rey" (The King). There's a little part in this song that shares the same idea of Ithaka: También me dijo un arriero, que no hay que llegar primero, pero hay que saber llegar":
"Also, a mule driver told me that you don't have to arrive first,
but you have to know how to arrive"
This is precisely what one of Karin Boye's (1900-1941) most famous poems is about. She is one of the most famous Swedish poets.
The poem is from the collection Härdarna (1927) and is called "I rörelse" ("In motion").
The most famous line is "Visst finns det mål och mening med vår färd - men det är vägen som är mödan värd." (There surely is a goal and a meaning to our journey - but it is the way that is worth all the effort.)
I rörelse
Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst. Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst.
Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd - men det är vägen, som är mödan värd.
Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast, där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast.
På ställen, där man sover blott en gång, blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång.
Bryt upp, bryt upp! Den nya dagen gryr. Oändligt är vårt stora äventyr.
The obstacle is the path.
@Marc Thomas that's where I learned it!
Spoton !!. n SO nice having YOUR voice init - Messagebis never the same withoutit xx
Reminds me of the movie UP. It was always about the journey.... not the goal. In case of the movie UP. He discovered he had memories of Ellie all along and created new ones with new people
Lovely! I have studied Romantic-era English poetry, as well as some more contemporary American poets, but I have never seen this work before. Thank you for bringing such a wonderful piece of poetry into my sphere of awareness!
This is similar to the Buddhist idea of picnic spots in the course of life. I dig it.
Thank you so much.
YT, I needed to hear this rn… thank you algorithm!
In simple words, enjoy the process of journey...
A good perspective. Enjoy the journey. The destination may be the end of all things.
So essentially , enjoy the journey and don’t worry kuch about the destination.
Very beautiful reminder ❤
I did need to hear this right now
Thank you!
Thank you for this! ❤👏🏻☀️
If we believe the destination is a good ending.
Then we can enjoy the whole journey.
That's where faith and religion play their cards.
People often fail to see the end.
As they become miserable in the process.
Not because lack of information.
But lack of imagination.
I needed this - ty
This man`s voice...
It’s pretty logical really. When you work towards something, you’re achieving small goals along to way, giving you a feeling of growth. Which will be felt due to dopamine and endorphins released when you make those steps. When you’re at the destination you’ve reached what you wanted. Leading to no more goals, leading to no more release of dopamine and endorphins.
Thus why it’s also important not to celebrate big wins.
Just keep on working and fall in love with the process.
On the other side, your happiness will actually increase when you own your house. That’s an Ithaka worth striving for. As also being fulfilling when you reach the goal. Because a home gives you security, safety and financial stability. Leading to less worries or anxieties.
The real treasure was the friends we made along the way
Great message...
Beautifully done, thank you!
To paraphrase the advise columnist, Anne Landers, who was most likely referencing numerous philosophers: "It is good to have an end towards which to journey, but it is the journey that matters most in the end."
Alain de Botton is a genius 😃
This video looks and sounds like the oldest, most classical SoL videos. I like the newer ones but it is pleasant to feel a bit nostalgic watching this one.
Sadly this quite the opposite for me. I am stuck in one place, no way to go anywhere, no people to meet, nothing to see until I get financial stability. I am on the treadmill of life with tears in my eyes and both hands reaching out forward in a vain attempt to get to my goal.
I feel similar. Makes you wonder about the kind of privilege to just ‘go experience life’s adventure’. Yea sure this journey is great until life kicks the absolute shit out of you and beats you so far into the ground the only thing you know is stagnation and the opposite of adventure. There are no harbours, only one day to count off until the next and the next and the next.
@@spencerlukay5809 Exactly!
Thank you for this
Thanks so much!
Yay, Ithaka!
Wow, just wow
Wonderful and eye opening.🧡🧡
This channel is why i will not be able to leave youtube....
The pursuit of happiness.
In case anyone's interested, a famous Catalan musician has an awesome song about exactly this: Lluís Llach - Itaca
no way you guys did a video on my favorite poem!!!!!!
Beautiful!
Merry Christmas, your videos always leave me with plenty of good for thought!
Perfect video. Would love to know more about kavafis
On the same topic, The alchimist by Paolo Cuelho. Great book.
yes.
the best poem! talks about everything
Thank you for this reminder SoL :)
As Aerosmith put it, "life is a journey, not a destination"!
Thanks
life's about the journey, not the destination
Working on putting my anxiety in check so I can enjoy the journey
You need more drugs.
Video of perfection!
So true! The road matters more than destination!
It sums life up!