MOTION AND DIRECTION

Motion and Direction ~ 21 ~ MOTION AND DIRECTION A western thinker once commented, “You have removed most of the road blocks to success when you have learnt the difference between motion and direction.” One intrinsic quality of activity is movement. When you are walking, driving, riding a bicycle, galloping along on horseback or roaring along on a motorcycle, you are moving. But in what direction? Are you moving towards your destination, or away from it? The actual motion in both cases seems to be no different in quality. The great difference between the two is that the former brings you ever nearer to your destination, while the latter takes you further and further away from it—leaving you where? Nowhere. At least, nowhere worth going. It is direction that is allimportant. Even if we only get on to the slow-moving bullock cart or a cycle rickshaw, we shall do better than a jet plane which has no sense of direction. Both in our private lives and social existence, it is imperative that we take stock of our means and