Is the journey more important than the destination?

[BluePriest]

I go to wal mart 5 minutes away from my house. On my way, I decide to turn on the radio, and a news station talks a bout a hurricane that is going to hit florida. I have a friend who lives in florida and I call them (still on the way to wal mart). I warn them of the hurricane, and they were not aware of it. They are alive just because of me. I reach wal mart. The destination has little significance compared to the journey.

Overall I would say it is the destination that really matters, but it can go either way.

Well, see in this example, there's the journey to walmart, and there's also the journey to call your friend, the destination being him moving to safety.

It may have had its own journey/destination, however, it is all part of the journey to wall mart.

[maverixk]

I go to wal mart 5 minutes away from my house. On my way, I decide to turn on the radio, and a news station talks a bout a hurricane that is going to hit florida. I have a friend who lives in florida and I call them (still on the way to wal mart). I warn them of the hurricane, and they were not aware of it. They are alive just because of me. I reach wal mart. The destination has little significance compared to the journey.

Overall I would say it is the destination that really matters, but it can go either way.

Well, see in this example, there's the journey to walmart, and there's also the journey to call your friend, the destination being him moving to safety.

It may have had its own journey/destination, however, it is all part of the journey to wall mart.

Sure, it's all part of the journey to wall mart, but it's also its own journey.
So you've got a journey inside of a journey!   

[Nepycros]

To me, a "journey" is just a chain of "destinations."

The only difference between my "destination" and your destination is the intent of the journey, where, if I've read your posts correctly, each journey must lead to the intended destination for it to be a destination.
If you say that the state of being at the intended destination is more important than the events that led to the intended destination, then I would interject that you learn/experience many things outside of that what you intended to learn. Consider the story of Around the World in 80 Days.

Now, if you believe that destinations are only the state of being, not the intended subset of elements that directly cause the state of being, then I will go back to my first definition of "journey." Each and every state of being is just as important as the "final" state of being that they lead to.

I kind of agree. Every 'state of being' that you take on during the journey marks your existence in some way. You leave behind the influence of your actions on everything around you. The journey matters because giving a positive influence is part of the journey.

[Aves]

If we take life (say, for example, my own) as a journey, and a journey is just a string of destinations, then there is an infinite number of destinations between my origin and my death.
Is my death, the end of result, more important than all the events of my life? Is the string of events between any two arbitrary events more important than any other such string of events?

[Nepycros]

Well, there isn't an 'infinity' that you can take. You're stuck in the broad spectrum of the availability of the world. You could take on millions of different paths, but the key is to find the destination you're comfortable with. If you achieve it, find a new destination. A goal is a destination you are comfortable with. Go for it.

The importance of any two points on the life timeline is determined, in solely my opinion, by the influence you leave behind.

[Pineapple]

Well, there isn't an 'infinity' that you can take. You're stuck in the broad spectrum of the availability of the world.

I think he meant "infinite" in the same context as that there are an "infinite" amount of unique points between two endpoints of a line segment.

[Kamietsu]

Death is the destination. Journey is more important.

I feel the journey is most important because it takes up a significant more amount of time than being at the destination, depending on the destination. I'm sure you'll spend way more tie dead than leading up to your death. The journey is what molds and shapes all the things in this world, and everything about yourself, to make that destination a reality. You can wander around aimlessly all you want, and make it one long journey, but you don't need to have a specific destination in mind. Even if you are headed somewhere without knowing it, you'd never arrive if you don't set out on your journey.

In the end, it doesn't matter. A journey will mean more to someone than the destination, while for some it will be vice versa, but you can never have one without the other. They complete each other perfectly.