You have arrived

We have a new GPS system for the car. We had one last year, but it was stolen this summer. So, now instead of Jill from Garmin we have "Ferdinanne" Magellan. She is quite good company and so far has not led us astray. (well, if we don't count the little detour to Arthur Treacher's, which really wasn't her fault at all.) One of her most endearing features is the pronouncement, as you draw near your destination that "You have arrived."

What a comforting thought, to have arrived. Arrived at your destination or your destiny. There are many things in life that proclaim "you have arrived." A new luxury car, a new designer home, a new office at work. Throughout life we arrive, arrive at new destinations and new positions, new places of understanding and new places of geography. We are urged to think of the journey, not the destination. I understand the appeal of that, the enjoyment of the process. But I think we can also take some pride in our arrivals, the completions of our journeys. To have arrived, even if temporarily, even if only at a stopping point along the route, is something in which we can take some delight.