Not the Car but the Road-- a Commentary of Chance *Of Change

The vehicle of life is a tricky thing. Understated in fine tuned curves: it exists as both the box surrounding us, the road beneath us, and the journey we think we have mapped out. Our environment changes us by challenge and the uncanny ability of those anti-shock tires to adapt to a bumpy road or ease over speed bumps at our own pace. But i'm not interested in the vehicle now, maybe later...now i'm interested in the rules of the road.

The lines on the road of life, that guide us along the way, seem opaquely yellow but they lie dormant on the ourfault, excuse me, asphalt. Stagnant in the boarders that define them, we follow their rules. We don't dare to pass over that yellow line for fear that something lurks around the bend. The unknown danger of an oncoming car, an oncoming life, the bright lights of anticipation or warning.

I don't extend this analogy too far, by all means when operating an actual machine STAY INSIDE THE LINES. But when operating within the matrix of life, those yellow lines are not impossible obstacles that leave only conformity in their end result. No, those lines are quite beneath you. They guide almost to a fault where the driver knows exactly where to go, provided an appropriate vision, and really has no free space of chance.

Swerve over the road of life, crash into someone new, leave your mark on the world. Yes, chances are that you may be forgotten, violently erased in the fissure of time and memory, you might just lose who you think you are in the crash...but you might just find something better. If you don't like it, take it in for repair...you are greatly salvageable.

Don't mistake ever changing as continuous negation. View it instead as a plentitude of growth, revisted as needed by memory. Let the oncoming cars enlighten you, not only to their own journey but also to the faults/highlights within your own.

You'll find the greatest impacts come with high speeds and a bit of recklessness. Take a chance, hold your breath, and delight in the unpredictability of off-roading.