Imagine this: Your life is a bus. It moves along the road of time. It may slow down for the turns in the road as they show up…some will be hard with sharp corners, others, gradual and easy.
Your bus can go fast if you choose to lean on the gas but if you don’t wear a seatbelt you may get knocked about hitting bumps and even pot holes at times.
Your bus, as with all buses on the road, will also eventually stop.
Ideally, you are always at the wheel, the driver. . . the one that chooses the direction, selects who gets picked up to accompany you on your trip and even what fuel you put into the tank.
As the driver of your bus, you are in control. Although you can’t control the environment, how slick the road may get under certain conditions or if other buses try to get in your way, how your bus runs is all up to you.
For instance if you choose to drive your bus through an unsafe neighborhood where you have to be hyper vigilant, you will likely not enjoy the ride very much.
You may find yourself on a very bumpy road and for some reason choose to keep on traveling that same stretch over and over, believing there is no other way.
Perhaps you drive your bus without a navigation system, which means you are not listening to your inner guidance and often get lost and scared.
You may be filling your bus’s tank with bad fuel which isn’t very healthy for your engine, causing backfires, sputters and stalls, while causing your vital parts to get gummed up with residue that slows you down.
Another option is that you drive so fast, you miss the signs on the side of the road, feeling lost much of the time.
In really extreme cases, you may even fall asleep at the wheel, which can certainly create havoc in the way of accidents, unintentionally bumping into other buses and in the worst case scenario, hit a wall or careen off a cliff.
Since I imagine you want to avoid the many and varied pitfalls of being on the road of life, aside from being absolutely AWAKE at the wheel, it is vital that you not let anyone else drive your bus.
Being a passenger in your life and not the driver will always leave you unfulfilled, lost, and void of enjoyment of the ride and that was not what was intended when your bus showed up on the road.
We encourage you to map your course, but to be open to unexpected side trips, trusting that wherever you go, you can make the most of it.
Of course, not falling asleep at the wheel is vital and remembering that as long as you are awake, taking in all that surrounds you while listening to the hum of your engine, you’ll always enjoy the ride.
Happy travels….toot…toot!