A little whisper in the dark

Where's the Holy Grail?

I recently finished reading a book, actually this is a rather hyped-up book from a couple of years back, but me being the niche reader that I am, did not pick it up. I've not bought a novel since I was a teenager, and since popular titles are invariably on loan at the public library, it simply slipped off the list of books to read.

Anyway, it still is a pretty hot book, for, having been provided with the e-book version of it (this is just a large text file of the novel - I wonder who had the time to transcribe all of it?) and doing one chapter, I was hooked enough to try to find it again in the library. The Da Vinci Code is about as elusive as the Grail, for two public libraries, three university libraries later, I resort to continuing the story on the electronic version. Its as controversial as it is realistic, and at the end of the day, whence the reader is cliffhanging on just what the Grail really is, the story ends. Right there.

I felt miffed at first, but the moral of the story as I see it is that it's not the success or failure of the quest but the quest itself. Its not the find, but rather the search. Its a journey of self discovery, and that should be what Life is to us. The trip, not the destination.

But we need to decide a destination to aim for, in order to get going on the trip. Without a destination, we go nowhere. And all too often as in this case, the destination might not even be a good thing for us, but we are often too clueless to realize that.

So we spend our time searching for a destination worthy of being pursued, so that we can begin the trip.

But can we find it ?

Or is our search for a destination in itself the quest for the Holy Grail?

posted by Chung Leong @ 9:59 PM