Journal 19 - The Journey

The beginning of Nectar in a Sieve was sad for Rukmani. This was the first part of her life journey. Life itself is a journey, moving around, doing things, learning more and more and eventually, being changed in the end. I believe that all stories take a journey and they can be both physical and mental. In an anime called Hunter x Hunter, they said that it's not about the destination but about the journey. The journey I want to talk about today though is Night by Elie Wiesel. It is a memoir and shows me one of the most horrifying and life-changing journeys of all time. I chose this because I have never seen such a violent journey and this tells me that even bad things can be part of a journey. His life journey starts when the Nazi took him to a camp. From there, he moved from camp to camp with his father and he never reunited with his mother and sisters. They smelled burning flesh and witnessed utmost cruelty, giving a thirteen year old a slow and painful death in front of the people. He endured the pain with his father and not long after, they escaped the Nazis because there was an attack. However, his father dies in the end and Elie is almost dead from food poisoning and the effects of war. Although he is physically alive, he only sees a corpse when he looks into a mirror. I have also been on some sort of journey. When I went to the monastery, I went through a huge mental journey. I thought about the horrors of death and many bad things that could happen. I try to dispel them by meditating but in the change it gave me was a bit of maturity and depression.