Turn Signals
June 20, 2010 by Douglas · Leave a Comment
I’m at this fork in the road. Maybe not a fork exactly, but one of those flashing red light intersections where you can drone out to the blinking eye of Sauron up there, wondering which direction to go.
If you keep going straight, then you stay on the path you’re pointing at now. I can’t see over the next hill and around the bend, so I’m not even sure of my destination any longer. Turn left or right and blaze a new trail? I can’t even see tail lights down either side. Who else has already turned?
So I sit, and I wait. The light will keep blinking at me no matter what I do, if I don’t press my foot to the pedal; and is sitting silent really that much worse than the unknown? The Morse code from the light above doesn’t tell me anything, but I think I can begin to hear the gadgets inside flick on and off. Its getting inside my head.
This is one of those days when it seems like I’m the only one on the road, so there’s no pressure to make a decision – but I think that there in lies the problem. I’m almost relaxed about it. This is becoming routine and although my foot is on the brake – I’m coasting right now.
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