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A road is a kind of a trap.
This is what makes them useful. If we weren’t trapped by a road, we would wander all over the landscape like the owners of SUVs only fantasize about doing.
Wandering has its uses, but getting somewhere is not one of them. You don’t have to be lost to neglect your destination, and if you have no destination, then getting lost can be the best way to get there. But many are the turns in the Road of Life, and many are the intersections.
But we all have destinations in our lives and so we choose roads to get us there. Usually we look at a map as if it has the secret answer to the road. And a trip may be only as good as its map, but without it, there would be no getting anywhere.
This doesn’t mean you have nowhere to go. But a road is only proportionately useful according to the understanding we have of its signs. A sign that tells us to stop does not have to tell us to go.
Why is that? How do we know to go, especially if we don’t know where we are going?
And there are no signs to tell us where we are going. We must know that in advance , because the most advanced map or dashboard guidance system is only as good as the choices we make. Those answers come from within.
You steer your car because you want it to turn. It is the same way with the Intersection of Decision. You do not choose an intersection so much as go through it. Stopping first, if the sign says so.
This is why we steer and this is why we choose.
There is no driver so misguided as the one who does not recognize that Life is just a series of adjustments we make to our wrong turns. In other words, the Road of Reality is simply the sum of our mistakes. That is how we get trapped. Trapped in a reality of our choices.
Unless we use a map or a dashboard guidance system. And that will keep us on the road we have chosen to be trapped on until we get to the Highway of Enlightenment.
So put not your faith in the map or the dashboard guidance unit, brethren and sistren, put it instead in the choices you have made and the signs you see.
It is only by looking and choosing that we can see and make decisions. And it is only by being trapped on a road that we can ever get to the One True Highway.
