The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.
The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.