The Bumpy Road

The highway of life is full of potholes and bumpy pavement that at times seems to turn our lives into one major jar to our tailbones after another. We survive the constant pounding as best we can with a smile and a gritty determination to make it through to our final destination, wherever that may be. It seems we have little choice but to make the best of things as life comes at us and keeps coming at us time after time again testing our durability and stick-to-itiveness. Even as we age one might think life would ease up on its constant pounding but instead it just keeps right on with a new deluge of rights and lefts to the chin just to remind us that the bumpy road ain’t at its end until life says it’s at its end. So life isn’t that “bowl of cherries” some would have us believe. It’s a hard road but it’s a road that we must all travel once thrust naked into a world where mysteries abound and beauty drenches the landscapes of this planet called Earth that we call home where time is the unrelenting master and the vastness of space becomes the next road we must seek to conquer as we return to the dust from which we came.