A journey of no return

As a kid and even now, whenever I set out on a journey some where, I start counting down the number of hours (sometimes even minutes). Whenever a distinct milestone is reached, I say to myself, 'Hey you have already reached here, just a few more hours to go..'. On the 59th minute of every hour, I have this self- conversation. Sounds really quirky but journey could be sometime really tiring and I need to keep saying something encouraging to myself. Instead of looking at these long journeys as a repulsive affairs, may be I should start enjoying the journeys occupying myself with things that I really like. There is always another chance for a trip...

Thinking about it, Life is like this to me as well. When I was in kindergarten, I look up to those in the primary school and I was yearning when I would be grown up like them and when I was really there, it was the secondary and senior secondary. When I was actually in my 12th grade, I was dying to join a college. While I college, I was frantically looking out for financial independence in the form of a job or at least get my education a further push in the form of Masters. After I got a job and have a career path, and seemed lost as to what I want next in life, my mother suggested that I marry and after a lot of push, that happened as well. I think there is always something to do until we retire. And I am wondering if I can claim I thoroughly enjoyed what I was doing each step of life or whether I would be saying i missed the fun waiting to get onto the next step. Unlike an airplane travel, life does not present us with a second chance. Life is indeed a journey of no return. How many of us can truly claim they enjoyed it thoroughly?