To wonder why everything has to be a 'journey'

[Marymarg]

I've lost weight, I've been on a journey.
I'm training for a big run, I'm at the start of my journey.
I've been very ill, my journey to recovery is happening.

Oh bog off with your journey!

I've lost weight, I've been very poorly and recovered. I'm training for a marathon right now.

The only journey I've been on is when I've travelled otherwise, all of the above just happened.

Why oh why does everything have to involve going on a 'journey' nowadays?

Primary schools are fulll of this. Learning walks, pupil conferencing, deep marking.

I have similar issues about ‘curated’. Just because you organised your sock draw doesn’t mean you curated it. Just because you wrote down a list of songs doesn’t mean you curated a playlist.

Well surely its because they took the midnight train going anywhere...

I saw a great (cringey) meme today:

There’s only one thing scarier than journey, and that is routine

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ok then!

Egos

Yep - ego. People have to make their lives more fascinating than they really are.

Now don't get me wrong. I bloody love life, I'm always enjoying new experiences and learning different things about myself on a regular basis. My life is amazingly, wonderfully fascinating, but only to me.

I don't describe anything as a "journey" because, and here is the crux of it, NOBODY ELSE GIVES A SHIT!!

It's superimposing the mediocrity of life onto a snazzy optic.

I think you're all very harsh!

If you have a goal in mind and decide to try and get there in the end, accepting that it won't happen overnight, when you look back on it, it does feel like a journey, or a process. Whatever you want to CALL it, it's an experience I feel I've had, and will continue to have hopefully. I know nobody cares at what point in various processes in my life I fall and I know that. But it's just labelling somebody universal surely.

@miss lanes it doesn't affect me it just pisses me off. I'm very happy thankyou.
I was reading a really good book about a woman who started running from zero and eventually finished a marathon. Great book and I was very impressed until she used that word. Still impressed of course I just wish she'd finished the book with 'I did it' rather than I finished my 'journey'

@pomello the only time I've ever felt I've been on a journey was when I travelled for months, but each to their own, it just annoys me.

There are some things that I realise now looking back on them, it was a long road to get to where I am now. But at the beginning of the long hard road I'd no idea if I would even decide where I wanted to go.

So maybe you can only know if it was a journey when you look back. I've had circuitous loops and detours but I feel like I've arrived somewhere good when my starting point was to have nothing so it's not a phrase that I HATE

I don't go round saying it though.

completely agree OP! It's all a journey, it's all about learning along the way and appreciating the moment....

Well bogg off with all that! I want to be at the flippin destination and stuff all the rest ....

I wouldn't really count losing weight as a journey but that's just me.

I used to have such low self-esteem that every boyfriend was abusive in SOME way even if I didn't see that right away. I cared more about what strangers thought than I cared about being happy.

I left the last abusive partner with nothing but bruises, dependents and debts, I saved, planned and read books about self-esteem and self-efficacy. I had psychotherapy. I quietened my anxious inner voices. I did things I liked just for me. I felt I knew a lot in theory and so I tried internet dating and applied for jobs and I realised that real life is more challenging and exhausting than reading articles and nodding.
Now I have a secure job, house, peace of mind, plans, optimism.... A journey is exactly how I'd describe this. YOu can't buy it, download it, read it, memorise it, it was (for me) ten years of living and learning and heading in the right direction with every small decision.

Not having a go at you. But maybe in years to come you'll look back on something and the expression will make sense.

The Road Less Travelled
The Road to Damascus
We're on the Road to Nowhere
Follow The Yellow Brick Road

It is impossible to escape.
We've been nomads ever since we stopped climbing trees and became Savannah Man.

Personally I would like more tree metaphors, nest building that sort of thing. putting out shoots, losing my leaves, fruit. Hammocks, swings, birdsong.

Nettleskeins - I am howling !!!

golden apples
nuts
dryads
ents

Similarly annoying to me is "we're on a road trip" - no you're not, you're just driving somewhere!

pomello x post, that is very moving. I am glad you went on your journey.

@pomello if that felt like a journey for you then fair enough and I'm so glad you've found some happiness.

The only journey I enjoy is the one back to bed or to the fridge

Because everything takes time, everything has its ups and downs like a journey.

A journey has a destination, an end goal. Weight loss was a destination. Illness and now recovery is a destination. And your marathon training has a destination.

Life is a journey.

I don't mind if people say they are "on a journey", it just means something to them.

But what a great collection of words from everyone. I am thinking of crafting them in a work email and sending meaningless drivel to some poor bastard my boss tomorrow!

@Marymarg

With all due respect, at the end of the day..........

It is what it is...........

We are all transparent, we are all making memories, and we are all 'woke.'

So get over it, deal with it, suck it up, just sayin' YOLO, totes, I know rite?!

Babes..... stop being so salty, coz the struggle is real..........

ur such a basic bitch. I mean like, I can't even.....

Sorry, not sorry ....

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Well yes it does work very well as a metaphor, I'm not disputing that, but it's just such a tired and overused cliché at the moment so the people that use rollercoaster and journey sound a bit dull and inarticulate.

If you play an X Factor drinking game with journey and rollercoaster (and 110%) you'll be absolutely hammered at the end of the show.

And after you've been on your " journey" you'll obviously be writing a blog about it to bore the pants off everyone even more .

On the journey to living my best life # making memories # Live Laugh Love