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The Road Waiting to be Travelled
One of your dreams may be to travel. If so, do it now.
It does not matter if you are young or old. Do it now.
You only have now, so do it now.
Travel far away to exotic destinations.
How exciting is it to stand in the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbeck; or view Paris from the Eiffel tower; or
walk up the Acropolis in Athens to have the Parthenon emerge; or to get a sore neck from continually
looking up at the frescoes on the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican; or to gasp at the
workmanship of the Gold Mask of Tutankhamon; or to listen to the prayers being chanted at the Dome
of the Rock in Jerusalem? That is what expands the mind.
In ancient times one was not considered to be educated unless one had travelled.
I feel that the same applies today. It is the exposure to new and varied experiences that makes this life
so intriguing.
A few lines from my travel journal may encourage you to live your dreams to the max.
It is early morning on Good Friday 2001. Our cases are packed and Amin drives us into Beirut to the
bus station where we negotiate a price with a driver to take us to Damascus, Syria.
After some haggling we get into an old American car painted yellow, a roomy Buick with heaps of grunt.
Issam (the driver) speaks some English. I speak some Arabic so we communicate. He has five children
and drives every day between Beirut and Damascus, about one hundred and forty long kilometres. He
is Lebanese; but his family lives in Damascus because it is much cheaper than Beirut.
Arab music is blaring on his radio as we cross the mountains of Lebanon through what can only
be described as the beautiful Bekka Valley.
The poet was right when he said, “Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon shall be turned into a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest.”
Orchards and gardens are the tapestry of the valley. The most productive crop is Hashish, grown for
the western consumer. Watchful eyes guard the crop as a father would guard his teenage daughter.
Approaching the Lebanese border we prepare for chaos. Cars, buses, trucks, bikes are all parked like a
bunch of fiddle sticks.
“Yalla Yalla’’(come, come) Issam calls to me as we enter the smoke-filled room.
While I gasp for oxygen no one else seems to care.
Special lines marked for Lebanese, Arabs, and Arjnabee (foreigners). I cannot see the reason for these
lines as nobody follows them. Everybody pushes in, in front of everybody else. Hands and documents
are pushed under or over the glass counters with everybody yelling to be heard.
Issam has done this many times before, he is the pro. I stand back and watch his expertise. We jump the
queue, or what could be called a queue. He argues his way forward. Documents are stamped, but no
money is exchanged. We are out of there. I breathe again.
The Buick roars into life as we continue for three minutes to the Syrian checkpoint. The procedure is
repeated, however the Syrian Official wants money to stamp our documents. This is illegal, we argue,
then reluctantly pay.
Back into the Buick to the final checkpoint. Our documents are checked. One passport has not been
stamped in retaliation for our arguing. Issam exclaims, “Al Kelb”. I know immediately what he has said.
He has called the Syrian Official a dog. Back he walks to get the Passport stamped. “Hallas” all is
finished at last.
Back into the Buick we head for Damascus with a promise that when we are ready to leave Damascus
we will not go with any other driver back to Beirut. We will give the fare to Issam.
He says, “Promise”. I reply “As-salaam Alaykum”. As Issam dangerously navigates through the sea of
cars, people, and animals at speeds that prompt the thoughts of death I repeat silently, “Ensh-aralah”
(Whatever God wills). Our life is in his hands.
I then think of the famous Arab saying, “If it is your time to die, nothing will save you, if it is not your time
to die, nothing will take you.” Once again it was not our time to die. We arrived safely in Damascus to be
summoned to the banquet table of life.
If you have a dream to travel, trade your dollars for the experience. You will be much richer than having
your money sit in a bank, being used by someone else and represented by numbers on a statement.
Your other option is to do nothing except to ‘Take care of your cents and then your dollars will take care
of your heirs and their lawyers’.
The Vicarious Experience
You could read some of the great travel stories, no one would doubt the value of this, but at the end of
the day you would not have travelled. It was not your experience, you only read about someone else’s
experience. You have had a vicarious experience.
You cannot develop your muscles by sending your servant to the gym. You cannot live life to the max.
vicariously. The word “vicarious” means that you imagined participation.
To read or see the movie about the false imprisonment of the prize fighter Ruben Carter may give you
feelings of anger, love, hate, etc. but these are second-hand feelings. Carter has already felt them.
Reading is such a wonderful way to experience what others have experienced as long as we do not lose
sight of the fact it is someone else’s experience. There are not enough years nor is it possible to
experience all things, what’s more we would not want to. So reading, going to the movies and the
theatre can be a substitute of great value. We visit life through the eyes of another person.
However it is of more value to live your dreams thus creating your own experience.
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1. Maxers Know The Big Picture While Not Ignoring The Small One
• Live To Fulfill The Measure Of Your Creation
• An American Psychologist
• Hierarchy Of Needs
• Characteristics Of Self-Actualizing People
• Competition In Life
• Nature And Environment
• The Eagle School
• We Are All One
• The Grand Design
• The Fifth Child
• To Reason Is Divine
• The Mysteries Of Life
• Know Thyself
• Knowing Our Progenitors
• His First Parents
• The Treasure House
• Another Window To Your World
• Spiritual Genetics
• Crossing Over
• Small Things Do Count
• It Was Only A Shoe box
• The Keys
• There Is A Process
• When The Student Is Ready The Teacher Arrives
• Our Great Teachers
• The Refiner's Fire
• What Was Happening To You In 1992?
• Gillian Barre Syndrome
• The Stolen Car
• The Recession We Had To Have
• Could Things Get Any Worse?
• Fire Is The Test Of Gold
• Adversity Overcomes Procrastination
• Freedom To Choose
• Why Decision - Making Is Difficult
• Operation Thunderbolt
• Time - Out Or Burn Out
• An Ancient Practice For A Modern Society
• The Sabbatical
• Why Not Design Your Own Sabbatical?
• Retaining The Newness
• Chapter Summary
2. MAXERS LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD
• The Seduction Of Life
• The Grass On The Other Side
• Money The Great Seducer
• Stuffed And Animated
• The Magical Tent
• That Car
• The Other Woman
• We Knew We Would Not Get It
• The Hitchhiker
• A Beautiful Mind
• The Other Voices
• The Ultimate Power
• The Temple Of Sais
• A Defining Moment
• Do Not Procrastinate Life
• The Cycle Of Life
• King Solomon
• The Seasons Of Our Life
• The Only Season Is Now
• Every Day Is A Great Day
• The Scapegoats
• The Buck Stops Here
• The Halcyon Days Of The Eighties
• The Crows And Canaries
• The Excuse Peddlers
• Chapter Summary
3. MAXERS LIVE BY A CODE OF ETHICS
• The Eternal Fitness Of Things
• The Sinking Village Of Yarraville
• What Will You Become?
• Why Live By A Code?
• Codes That Others Have Lived By
• Florence Nightingale
• Desiderata
• What Are You Prepared To Die For?
• The Fall Of Massada
• Walls And Fences
• The Freedom Fence
• The Wall Builders
• The Freemasons
• Rotarians
• Write Your Own Mission Statement
• The Secret Of Attracting Happiness
• The Result Of Ethical Living
• Honesty Is Still The Best Policy
• Trust, The Twin Brother Of Honesty
• The Wooden Bowl
• Ulterior Motives
• Chapter Summary
4. MAXERS LIVE THEIR DREAMS BY CONQUERING THEIR FEARS
• Actions Are Born Of Dreams
• The Language Waiting To Be Learned
• The Road Waiting To Be Traveled
• The Vicarious Experience
• The Book Waiting To Be Written
• Humanitarian Dream
• The Risk Takers
• Your Angle Of View
• The School Bully
• Preparation Eliminates Fear
• Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
• The Final Enemy
• To Live Your Dreams You Must Cross The Rubicon
• The Perseverance Factor
• Rabbi Akiva
• What Is This?
• Focus
• Landing Without Focus
• A Disciplined Mind
• You Were Created To Win
• Chapter Summary
5. MAXERS ARE LOVERS
• Love Is A Spiritual Fire
• In Jail
• Standing For The Teacher
• The Russian Immigrant
• The Hajj
• The Pilgrims
• Showing Appreciation
• Avoid Criticism Like The Plague
• If You Have To Criticize
• Accepting Criticism
• Become An Encourager
• Chapter Summary
6. MAXERS LET GO TO HANG ON
• Closure, The Elixir Of Life
• The Monks And The Maiden
• Steps To Closure
• Turning Back We Go Forward
• You Are Right Too
• Prevention Is Better Than Cure
• The Ambulance In The Valley
• Your Anger And The Sun
• The Anger Test
• Tips To Reduce Anger
• Flight
• Accommodations
• Force
• The Treaty Of Versailles
• Compromise - Let Us Meet In The Middle
• Collaboration - Doing It Together
• Civil War Surrender
• Chapter Summary
7. MAXERS GIVE AND KNOW THAT GIVING IS THE MEASURE OF GREATNESS
• To Get By Giving And To Lose By Keeping
• Our Greatest Gifts
• Chief Seattle
• Time To Give
• What Should We Give?
• A Gift Of Value
• We Are All Colonizers And Pioneers
• An Ordinary Life
• Teaching People How To Fish
• The Difficulty Of Giving
• Giving Of Yourself
• The Hands Of Albert Durer
• You Receive By Giving As Long As You Do Not Give To Receive
• I Cannot Give What I Do Not Have
• Levels Of Giving
• Giving Is Not Always Convenient
• We Are All Beggars
• Attracting Happiness
• Happiness And Joy
• Another Model
• Mother Theresa
• The Comfort Zone
• Change - The Only Constant
• Knowledge And Information
• Knowledge And Faith
• Faith, The Servant Of Knowledge
• Knowledge Is Power
• The Ultimate In Knowledge - Inspiration
• The School Door Is Always Open
• Chapter Summary
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