One-Way Trip – An Excerpt from Nice Start by Mark Chussil
The March-April 2005 issue of Via magazine (published by the American Automobile Association) included an interview with former senator Jake Garn of Utah. He trained with NASA for six months and then spent a week on the space shuttle Discovery in 1985.
The reporter asked him, “Where in the cosmos will you go next?”
He said, “I’d love to be the first man on Mars — even if it’s a one-way trip.”
Although we may buy a one-way ticket when we move from one home to another, we know that we can buy another one-way ticket to return. Not long ago, though, searching for a better life meant permanently leaving homes, families, friends, countries, and cultures. (That’s how my grandparents came to the United States.) Today, many people make (or want to make) one-way trips to find peace, safety, or opportunity.
Earlier in Nice Start we noted the idea that you can have anything you want if you’re willing to pay the price. Think about the prices people pay — the commitments and sacrifices, long ago and today — for their one-way trips.
Some one-way trips aren’t about our position on the globe. Having children, getting divorced, or choosing a career are one-way trips.
One-way trips aren’t inherently good or bad. They are simply choices, though not necessarily simple choices.
Explorations
List 5 one-way trips you have made, the prices you paid to take the trips, and the positive benefits you gained from them. What’s different about your permanent one-way trips that were worth the prices you paid and those that were not?
What would be worth a permanent one-way trip for you?
What’s something you think of as a one-way trip that may not be one-way?
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.”
-Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
“We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.”
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the Declaration of Independence
One-Way Trip is an excerpt from Nice Start: Questions Only You Can Answer to Create the Life Only You Can Live, by Mark Chussil. Copyright © 2010 Mark Chussil. For more about Nice Start, please visit
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