How many out there feel like they are out of gas? Do you? We need to keep moving forward but are running on the fumes left over from the empty gas in the tank. The human condition constantly takes a toll on us, draining our tank, while life’s road offers very few stations to refuel.
In ’69 I was 21 and called the road my own.
This song by Jackson Brown always resonates with me (even though I wasn’t even alive in 1969) every time I hear it played. When we are young, there is a fire within us. We drive full speed ahead, and we can do no wrong. Entering adulthood, we have all the answers and doubts are suppressed. For those of you who have teenagers and young adults for children, you can understand. They think they have the world figured out and will refuse to listen to reason. They are right and everybody else is wrong.
I don’t know when that road turned into the road I’m on.
Once the world smacks us in the face with a bucket of ice, cold water and our bubble bursts, we are lost. We thought we knew everything that there was to know. Confidence is shattered, and we are left with a pile of questions that have broken answers. Many times, we stop and think, “How did I get here. Where did it go wrong?”
Just like the song, we find ourselves on an unknown road and have no idea how we got there.
I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
When faced with life, we face decision after decision, and all of these decisions impact the road we choose to travel. Even small, seemingly insignificant choices can alter the direction we are heading. Most of the time we are oblivious to this due to the chaos of existing; another symptom of this human condition. It also comes back to conformity. There is so much happening, that people find it easier to lay back and “go with the flow.”
You may suddenly come to this realization that you are lost and have no idea what road you have driven onto nor how to get back on the road you were on. Don’t run blind and hope you will eventually find your way back. Stop for a moment and realign your soul.
All is not lost, and it is never too late.
Dive deep into yourself and seek what is good and right. Follow those even if the people you are sharing the road that you are on disagree. Be an individual, for we are all unique. Life is not about getting every person to all think the same and agree. It is about the individual discovering a life of meaning- a life of good that pushes back against evil or the immoral.
Look around at the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running too…
We all have the ability to rise above this condition. It is a condition that we all share.
You know, I don’t even know what I’m hoping to find.
This reflects how many people feel, rushing down a road with an unknown destination. What are you hoping to find?
Chaos or Peace? Good or Evil?
Insurrection Of The Mind 