As I drove along the highway looking forward to a school trip with my niece Shauna, my own children don’t want me anymore, I found myself driving behind a transport truck. All that know me are aware that driving is one of my least favourite activities as it is, never mind near something that’s 100 times bigger then me. There I was; unable to change lanes and pass, unable to slow down with the risk of being tailgated, another of my least favourite things, so I just tolerantly drove. At a constant speed with no view other then a “How’s My Driving”, I waited for my chance to make the move that was going to put me back in the forward motion at my own speed, with me in control.
Now, let us look at this truck like life for the moment. Plans that were going to move us forward changed, slowly implementing some adjustments to my work, gratefully no set-backs, I’m just stuck behind a truck. I realize I’m still moving forward on my path but with no control how quickly I was going nor with my perceived current destination insight. As the kilometers continued to add up I felt I had made no movement, still in the same place, with others passing me by. Sounds like life at times doesn’t it?
Then it happened. The truck signaled and off the highway it went. Suddenly I found myself with a clear and opened lane in front of me. Again I was off and moving forward, hurrying to catch a couple of school buses. Arriving at our destination I began to see the irony of driving being much like life. We get stuck behind trucks or in traffic or reach turns and dead ends in the road but ahead there is always a change we can get back on our path. Be assured we will make it to our destination. So we can accept being stuck behind a truck as the temporary thing that it is and accept life as it comes, Life with the least Resistance.