Journeying

What is a journey?
Or, to be more precise: 
How do we know we are on a journey?
Is it because there is an END point to this adventure-called-life? 
Is it because there is a STARTING point?
Should there be a lesson at any stage of this so-called journey?
Should there be company on route?
Should there be a 'should' at all!??
Am I on a journey right now? 
Are YOU? 
Is the journey the meaning we all aspire to find?
Is the journey the actual destination?

My middle school had a quote plastered on its entry wall: 
'Education is the journey, the PERSON is the goal.'
So my middle school student self would say: On the journey of my life - I AM the goal.