The Road A Discussion

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Whoever invented the metaphor of life as a road was a schmuck

If life is a road then i'm a bloody hedgehog (i.e. i have no idea where the road leads - hey i'm not even trying to go down it - i'm on it by complete accident -there might be a higher plan - a defined pathway - a divine pathway even - but i'm travelling at complete variance to it and at such a slow speed that to change my course and start trotting up (or down - how do i know what's right? - i'm a bloody hedgehog) the road would be futile (i'd never get anywhere and if i did then i wouldn't know if i'd gone the right way or not anyhow) and - and my "journey" will be terminated at short notice by something moving so damn fast i don't see it - or by crossing serenely over to "the other side")

david 29/10/06 13:02

The thing about the road is, no one else has a clue anyway. Thus the best bet as far as I can see is get yourself a really boring average job, which doesn't pay much, and doesn't really go anywhere, and get yourself an average wife, who doesn't really do much, and doesn't really go anywhere, and do really boring stuff each week cos you can't think of anything else to do, which doesn't really say much, and doesn't really please anyone, and then when someone you 'know' but don't really know anything much about and consequently have no idea if you actually like them or not, asks you how life is, you say "yeah mate, it's going well. I'm getting a new car august."

And that's your road there, no idea where it's going, but hey

dan 30/10/06 01:30

The road? Well, Dave may be dawdling around waiting for his inevitable death, and at least Dan has identified what the road is. Presumably Dan isn't on a particular road then? If at all. My road is a muddy track and I'm sort of still looking for the road underneath, or maybe i'm waiting for the road to appear a little bit further down the mud track, or maybe this is THE road! THE road everyone's been talking about all this time and it's so over-fucking-hyped I never expected it to be a shitty little mud-track. I think this is the only road I'm ever gonna be on, but I seem to keep taking a wrong turn because I feel like I'm exactly where I was years ago when I first got on this mud track. If only there were some signs around here. I hate roads. I don't even drive for Christ's sake.

andy 30/10/06 9:35

I guess my point was that a lot of people convince themselves that their lives are interesting, and that they're happy, and doing well, but really they're not, they're just doing what they're doing cos that's what everyone else does, so they must be doing alright.

dan 30/10/06 10:07

But what about all the people who know that they're not really happy and but don't know what the fuck to do? I know if someone told me I could go back to the beginning of this elusive 'road' I would probably pack a little better for the journey and plan it a little bit too.

andy 30/10/06 16:23