Battle Royale

 

The journey versus destination conflict has been ongoing since cavemen first started noticing dinosaurs during their daily constitutionals. I am not sure it has ever been true that the journey surpasses the destination. Maybe for destinations that weren't worth going to in the first place, but most of AcMo's journeys haven't been half as impressive as the final destinations. There was that one flight when I thought we had lost half of the plane's engines, but that turned out to be in the movie that was on as I fell asleep. Otherwise flights have been uneventful and not worth sharing.  The stories our baggage could tell might make for interesting reading, but our bags won't talk to anyone who doesn't have the proper clearance. 

I've tasked the desk engineers with figuring out how to make the journey the destination just to keep things interesting.  Their success would signal a triumphant end to the perpetual conflict. We would have time to work on our product backlog after that.  I'm trying to blow minds and break preconceived notions. The joke is that i was talking about teleportation, but none of them realized that. The desk engineers were not amused when I explained it to them, but they never had a sense of humor anyway. That's why they are stuck at their desks in the first place. In case you didn't know, humor makes the world go around. Gravity is an excuse because physicists don't understand how humor works. 

I have determined that the people who believe that the journey surpasses the destination can't be racers.  Every racer knows that it is imperative to be the first to cross the finish line.  Nothing else matters except for that destination. The checkered flag doesn't care how many sleepless nights were involved in the pre-race prep. It doesn't care what anyone  had for breakfast or the shenanigans that happened on the highway with the rental car. All of that stuff is filler for the main event. 

None of the three drivers pictured above were interested in a great journey unless it resulted in being the first to cross the line at the end of the race. I suppose the Rolexes awarded to the winners never hurt either. 

Maybe the journey can surpass the destination if it ultimately involves triumph, but I still think that's nonsense. Next time I'm in court I'll try that defense with the judge and see what happens. The clients don't need to know I beta test all of my wildest theories during their cases.