Open road

I know it’s all too often that life is compared to an open road, or I as I prefer an open highway. If you really think about it this is the best analogy that anyone has ever come up with. When you begin planning your journey you are all starry-eyed with expectations of what is ahead of you and excited about the unexpected along the way. You think about how you will handle the implements such as the weather, location of gas stations and food stations for re-fueling and the possibility of the car breaking down. With all this taken into consideration we still continue our journey because we know that the final destination is what it’s all about and we will weather any storm along the way.So now we are on the open road, beautiful isn’t it? Suddenly out of no where: a tunnel. That’s ok! At first it’s great you enter the darkness with hope and the knowledge that it will end and once again you will be surrounded by beautiful light. But ya know this tunnel is taking longer than it should. Why does it feel that as you are driving it seems to get longer and longer? Frustration begins to bubble inside, and you can’t even call anyone as your cell phone does not get any reception. Ok, ok just relax you keep telling yourself, as you know it can’t last forever. And as the calm washes over you begin to see the light. It approaches slowly at first, then faster and faster until….ahhhh back on the open road. See it wasn’t so bad!Along the way you will hit many bumps, these bumps can be really annoying as they always seem to come when you are attempting to achieve something, whether it be great or small. Like you go to take a sip of your fresh-brewed Tim Hortons coffee “BUMP” it spills! You just found your favourite traveling song on the CD and “BUMP” it skips! These bumps never seem to come at opportune times but we will endure and just keep on driving.Now, the time has come for the bend in the road. Don’t these always make you think twice if you are going the right way? But often we have no choice but to continue along down the road as we always want to see what is on the other side and usually it’s nothing but one day we know it will be something.So I conclude this analogy with a couple of notes. The first is from an old children’s song: “She’ll be coming ‘round the Mountain”. She never did “come” did she? But she was always coming around that mountain, because like us, she too wanted to know what was waiting for her on the other side. So when you think you cannot continue think of she, whoever SHE is and know that she is still “coming around” and never give up.The other note is a quote: “Making love to Evelyn is like riding your bike on train tracks. You’ll get where your going but you’re gonna feel every bump” (Berta, Two and a Half Men). Though, substitute “making love to Evelyn” with “living life”!