Preparing for India: One step at a time

I don't often see the steps required to accomplish something. I get an idea in my head and I only see the end result, the big picture, the finished product. One of the greatest gifts any friend has given me was the ability to see, and moreso to embrace these steps. To see them, not as hindrances to a goal, but as necessecities to finish a goal well. I also think, from watching this friend's life, that embracing the steps really does complete the adventure. I really do believe that life is a journey, or maybe a series of millions of journeys, and ignoring the tiny, seemingly insignificant, perhaps annoying steps along the way makes the big picture not so grand in the end.
I wanted to be a singer/songwriter in high school and college (and maybe a little still today). So I got a guitar and played 5 minutes, once every other week. I was disappointed in my lack of progress. I was not accomplishing the dream.
What does this have to do with India? India is an end result and also a step. I will go. I will come home. I will continue to live my life. In the bigger, big picture, India is an exciting but very small step. Not to empty the trip of its importance in my life before I even go. There has just been so much anticipation, so much planning, so much thinking about this 16 days of my life. I am beside myself with excitement. It's often all I think about.
So this somewhat new-found perspective is quite freeing. That life doesn't end after this big event. I like being gifted by friends with new ways to think and live.