First, a brief apology for being largely absent this week. I always feel guilty, but I am under dayjob crunch, so there you have it. I will get around as I can.
Pretty, but treacherous, this one... |
So it's like people are roads, right? And life is the car, driving along us. I know that sounds backward, but hear me out. Because honestly, I think that the PERSON is the less changing of the two and LIFE speeds up, slows down, changes gears, breaks down... and each of us sort of has a road style of how we are as life zooms over us.
This realization came upon me this weekend as I interacted with someone and realized they were a road with about an inch of standing water... life is ALWAYS a little harder, but if life gets too fast, then this person gets dangerous. (S)he needs to figure out a way to SLOW LIFE so the wheels can solidly rest again or that lack of connection to reality is going to cause a whole BUNCH of lives to crash all over him/her.
This is me. Not DULL, but not challenging, either. |
Try to avoid being this... Though I have known people... |
I'd even say some of my artist friends are more like canals—far more enjoyable on a nice day, but throw in a storm and HO-BOY!
So what kind of road are you? Your primary characters? Am I making sense?
16 comments:
Think I'm on a long, straight, boring stretch of freeway running across Kansas...
I think I would LIKE to be someone who is gravel...but is actually a city street. :)
I'm a twisty turny dirt road on the way to a cottage. I could be a little better in the safety and comfort department but hey! I like where I'm going and the twisty turny upsy downsys keeps scaredy cats from the door. yep.
I'm a pretty straight road too, but there are lots of pretty scenes on either side of me as I whiz by ;)
great metaphor...I am definitely a twisty turny road going around a mountain, ...can't see too far ahead, you know b/c of the mountain.
Wow. Gotta think about this one. Hmm...I think I'm a road in a swampy area. I'm navigable if the weather is good, but throw in a storm and I become covered in water and you have to wait out the storm. Of course there are sunny days, and you cruise on by. Or, friends come help divert the water and suck it up with a serious shop vac and then you can get through...
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Definitely a winding, mountain road. I try to take life slowly, and enjoy the view at each knew turn/twist. And I like to try to keep moving towards the top, even if I secretly hope I'll never find it. :-)
I'm a footpath - a little overgrown here and there, a little underused, a little neglected at times but overall ever so handy to have around (and good for the environment! LOL!) Take care
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Pretty sure I'm that two lane stretch of road that suddenly dead ends in a residential neighborhood. I gotta work on some goals I think. :P
I'm a scenic route. That sounds funny to say.
teehee--I love everybody's self analysis here!
That starts getting complicated... I suspect that the life I have and the life I present to people are very different.
I might have to go with a super congested freeway, where you try to zip around the traffic, exit the highway, take a little trip around the back roads to try to get through things more easily and more quickly... but in the end turn out in the exact same place behind the very same slow car...
This is an amazing metaphor. I would say that I am a city street type of person.
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I'm a pretty even road without too many twists and turns, but I need a lot more off ramps for me and whoever's riding me lately.
I think I might be the kind with a rickety covered bridge that is out. :) Loved your analogy...such a hoot to visit.
I think I'm city streets...I'm all about rules and predictability. Perhaps I have water on my road too...who knows.
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