Willa Cather's Essay: The End Is Nothing The Road

At the very end, my instincts tell me to be optimistic and look around to my sources and what I have. These factors combine together to bring me a sense of happiness. Without hope, I would be left confused and helpless. For example, High school, which just so happens to be a stressful point of time in my life and in many others, is part of my spiritual journey. To get on the brighter, opposite side of it, I must surpass it with the outlook of all I could achieve. Every second of it holds a meaning, as I’m constantly learning about myself and

What if you sacrificed all your time and put your all into something and only came out with a bronze, third place trophy? This person simply is disappointed, despondent, and dissatisfied. I don’t think that is wrong at all. Willa Cather once said “The end is nothing; the road is all,” but I think it is the complete opposite. I think this quote means that no matter the outcome, the journey there is everything. The end is everything because it involves expectation, interpretation, and dedication.

We would be embracing a carefree attitude; goals drives us to work and take action. They keep us busy. This is demonstrated in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho when the crystal merchant loses sight of his goal to visit Mecca leaving him on a endless journey. According to novel “The crystal merchant awoke with the day,and felt the same anxiety that he felt every morning. He has been in the same place for thirty years: a shop at the top of a hilly street where few customers passed.’’ (pg. 47) This proves that the crystal merchant lives a repetitive life therefore without a destination or a goal you’ll live a meaningless life. Additionally,we also this idea in another place in the novel where it states ”i don't want to change anything, because i don’t know how to deal with change. I don’t want anything in life.” (pg.47) This illustrates that the crystal merchant has no will to do anything. He is embracing an anything goes attitude. These quotes show the effects of having no destination or no goals to motivate

We’re all familiar with 'setting goals'. About who you want to be; who you want to be with. We've all lusted after something, or someone. We've all hoped for something, aspired

Have you ever had a goal and you would do anything to achieve it? Changing how we are and the things we do for people in life, is not as impossible as it seems. I have seen people do amazing things that have changed their lives forever. It is special to have that feeling that you just met your goal and it was the biggest goal you had out of all of the other goals. That is how goals shape us in life.

In the book called, “Oh the Places You’ll Go!” Written by Dr. Suess; the message he is trying to explain is that we have to make it our day to shine, you might not find a path right away that you're supposed to go on, but you will make your own special path that's fit just for you. However, there's going to be bumps in that path; people will leave you when they see you struggle. Sometimes, you will not want to get back up again.You will be frustrated and you’ll be in dark places that you won't ever want to be in, but, you have to keep pushing forward. You must push forward in order to get out. In the end it all works out, everything happens for a reason and it's your time to go move mountains, inspire others, inspire the world!

I'm trying to finish something,anything. I start an endeavor and somewhere down the line I talk myself out of completion. I want to do everything and wind up doing nothing. I just want to do what I love and that is snapping pics. I want to travel the world and become a photojournalist but it seems unrealistic. I live in a fantasy world and I'm just realizing that being an adult is hard work.

In her novel, O Pioneers!, Willa Cather suggests that the balance of passionate feelings and platonic dreams is an essential conflict of the human condition. Cather explores the importance of a balanced selfhood through the journey of the heroine, Alexandra Bergson, a dedicated pioneer living on the Nebraska prairie in the late nineteenth century. Although Alexandra initially feels fulfilled by her platonic dream of working the land to provide for her family, following the tragic death of her brother, she craves a human relationship with her friend, Carl. Alexandra’s deep appreciation and connection with the mythical Divide offers her a metaphysical and passionate relationship, whereas her long term platonic friendship with Carl offers human

My first key point comes from Dirksen, where it discusses how “learning experiences are like journeys.” You begin this journey in the now and the end of your journey is when you reach success. “The end of the journey isn’t learning more, it’s doing more.” One thing that comes to mind in this particular example is college. College is a journey, you begin the journey when you start your first semester of college as an eager freshman, and your college journey ends when you graduate. When you graduate college a new journey begins as you are entering the world on a job search and ends when you have reached your goal and landed the job. You have to decide if that job is really the

Everything we do ends with some kind of result. It is all about the decisions you make whether it is completing

If you give yourself a goal and just said you were going to do it, you will never end up accomplishing your goal. You have cheated yourself and have not benefited from anything. A wise man known as Benjamin Franklin once said, “Well done is better than well said.” I completely agree with what Mr. Franklin has said.

But when you aim for a goal everyday life keeps moving forward. When you dream, don’t just dream and stop halfway. I know sometimes you get lazy and you don’t want to chase your dream anymore and I know you may have tried multiple times so what's gonna hurt getting back up and trying again. When you don’t succeed that goal, you will feel like a worthless failure.

In the Jesus among the Fishermen, when the fishermen had emptied the nets into the two boats they were filled so full that they began to sink. Many people are afraid of not having enough of what they need or want, and so they are always striving to get to a point when they would finally have enough. However, just as the saying goes: A discontented man knows not where to sit easy. Many people believe that they will be happy once they arrive at some specific goal they set for themselves. However, more often than not, once you arrive " there" you will still feel dissatisfied, and move your " there" vision to yet another point in the future. By always chasing after another "there," you are never really appreciating

The quote from Willa Cather, “The end is nothing; the road is all.” The quote means that the journey to getting to the end is more important than the outcome of the journey. The journey getting to the end is the most important part of the experience because, during the journey is when you develop friendships with the people you are with in the experience. The end of the journey is the end and you would’ve not gotten there if it wasn’t for the journey that you were a part of.

I believe that staying miserable or motivated is always our choice. A desire to achieve can certainly leads to significant accomplishments and roughest roads lead to the top.