Do you live your life only to get to the end of it? Most people answer this question with a "no", but not everyone lives like they mean it. In the manic society that most of us experience, people exhibit a neurotic behaviour Robert Holden calls "Destination Addiction".
People who suffer from Destination Addiction believe that success is a destination. They are addicted to the idea that the future is where success is, where happiness is, and where heaven is. Each passing moment is merely a ticket to get to the future. Destination Addiction is a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is somewhere else.
We are always on the run, on the move, and on the go. Our goal is not to enjoy the day, it is to get through the day. We have always to get to somewhere else first before we can relax and before we can savour the moment. But we never get there. There is no point of arrival. We are like runaway trains bound for a station called NEXT.
What a pity that I hadn't listened to Robert Holden forty, fifty, even sixty years ago, but, of course, there had been no internet then where I could have listened to such insightful gems, and anyway, Robert Holden was only born in 1965, the same year in which I came to Australia when I had already embarked on a life of "striving without ever arriving".
