"I think this car in front of us is also going to Majestic" said my 9 year old son Vishnu looking at the car ahead and the google navigator. "How do you say that?" I quipped. "Because it is taking the same route as we see in the map". The car in front too religiously followed the same route turning left and right as depicted in the map till finally when the car took a right turn instead of left. Suddenly Vishnu realized that we are not going to the same destination any more. I tried to educate him with some philosophy. Similar to what you have seen now - we are together in the journey of our life as long as our paths coincide. We may have different destinations but our paths sometimes meet and we travel together. Then he said to my surprise - Dad, many people might be coming to Majestic from different parts of the city. We will meet them only at the Majestic. Yes that is also true. My son put my thought process in a different perspective.Person starting from Marathalli will not come across the person starting from Banashankari during their journey - they have a chance to meet only at the destination.
We may have entirely different paths which may not even crisscross even though our destinations are the same. Overtaking somebody on the pathway to reach earlier seemed meaningless as the destination may be entirely different. And there may be unknown travelers to the same destination whom we just cant overtake as they are not in our path. So why RACE? Be calm and enjoy your own journey.
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