JOURNEY

Whether it be a physical journey of hardship and adversary or a psychological journey of maturing and growing, journeys are an essential component of life, with life often being described as a journey in itself. Journeys are the chapters of our lives that tell the story of us; they encompass every action we take and every thought we come across.

This year's edition of Mind's Amaranth displays the journey that many of us experience while navigating through our youth. The initial state of aimless wandering that we often drift into because of uncertainty or listlessness, the intermediate stage of exploration where we are driven by a goal to see and do new things, followed by the final phase of discovery where we reach our destination---these are the parts of the journeys that write our life stories. Whether the final destination be self-reconciliation, a realization, or a completed goal, the path that we traverse to get there is what we aim to express with this year's magazine.