人生一刻 + 人生一課 (2)

人生一刻：Once I drove 12 hours to Washington DC to visit my friend. The city was beautiful and my friend treated me very well. It was a wonderful trip. However, a few years later, when I recall it, I found it was the trip itself, on my way to there and back home, that left me some most unforgettable moments: the thrill of driving in thunder storm in pitch darkness, the lovely purple flowers dancing in breeze beside the highway, the beautiful and peaceful small town in which I got lost, and the “welcome-home” firecracker explosion in the sky when I drove back into Toronto. Those are the gift boxes I didn’t know about although they were right beside me. The moments are lifetime gifts.

人生一課：Life is a journey. In a lot of cases, the trip itself is more interesting and important than the destination, although it’s bumpy on the way.

"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."  -- from movie "Forrest Gump"