Are We There Yet?
2012 April 9

Don’t you sometimes feel like a kid again, sitting in the back seat of the car, with your father or mother driving you to a holiday destination and wondering: “Are we ever, ever, ever going to get there?”
Sometimes the travelling can be intensely boring and mundane. Either way, time seems to drag on for hours, days and weeks (even years, in my own childhood perception of time!).
And it always seems that the closer you get to that long-awaited destination, the further away it seems.
Sometimes anger, hunger, tiredness and hopelessness set in. Sometimes we might even fight amongst ourselves.
Yet once we arrive at that place of paradise, all thoughts and memory of homework, exams, sibling rivalry and that never-ending journey instantly fade into oblivion.