destination
Original: destination on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bald man: I believe the journey is more important than the destination.
Woman (with dark hair): Why?
Panel 2:
Bald man (gesturing): Well, look at me. I climb mountains. There's no point at the end of it. It's really just a friendship thing or whatever. Anyway, I really enjoy the rewarding feeling of completing the journey.
Panel 3:
Woman: That's just a different kind of destination. If you started out saying "My destination is a rewarding feeling of completion," then I could say you're only thinking about the destination, and not the journey.
Panel 4:
Woman: You just took the general plan of "arrive at a destination," set the destination to be the starting point, and called it a win.
Bald man (small text): Why not just say it's not about the destination, it's about getting that military taste?
Bald man (caption text): Have I mentioned I only climb mountains alone?
Votey:
Caption (in a hand-drawn box): Wise people have just taken the limit as the distance between here and their destination approaches zero.
Bald man: I believe the journey is more important than the destination.
Woman (with dark hair): Why?
Panel 2:
Bald man (gesturing): Well, look at me. I climb mountains. There's no point at the end of it. It's really just a friendship thing or whatever. Anyway, I really enjoy the rewarding feeling of completing the journey.
Panel 3:
Woman: That's just a different kind of destination. If you started out saying "My destination is a rewarding feeling of completion," then I could say you're only thinking about the destination, and not the journey.
Panel 4:
Woman: You just took the general plan of "arrive at a destination," set the destination to be the starting point, and called it a win.
Bald man (small text): Why not just say it's not about the destination, it's about getting that military taste?
Bald man (caption text): Have I mentioned I only climb mountains alone?
Votey:
Caption (in a hand-drawn box): Wise people have just taken the limit as the distance between here and their destination approaches zero.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic, a conversation between a bald man and a dark-haired woman. Panel 1: the man says "I believe the journey is more important than the destination," and the woman asks "Why?" Panel 2: the man, gesturing, explains that he climbs mountains, there's no point at the end of it, it's a friendship thing, and he enjoys the rewarding feeling of completing the journey. Panel 3: the woman counters that this is just another kind of destination, since if his destination is "a rewarding feeling of completion," then he is still only thinking about the destination, not the journey. Panel 4: she sums up that he took the general plan of arriving at a destination, set the destination to be the starting point, and called it a win; the man mutters a deflecting reply and notes that he only climbs mountains alone. Votey: a hand-drawn boxed caption reading "Wise people have just taken the limit as the distance between here and their destination approaches zero" — a calculus joke recasting the journey-versus-destination cliche as a limit going to zero.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.