Life is like driving the open road


I don’t know if “Life is a Highway”, but it is very much akin to driving the open road. You’ve got those that drive with reckless abandon and with no thought for the rules or for others; those who wanna drive 20 mph under the speed limit in the fast lane, trying to force everyone to succumb to their lowest common denominator way of living; and the vast majority who simply want to engage cruise control and get what they’re legally entitled to in life– no more, no less.

"anonymously" wrote:

While I agree with the premise on the thought that most try to engage the cruise control and breeze through life just doing what is required of them and not much else I think you are missing a small but important segment of the living in your rant. And why that segment is shrinking..

The ones that actually drive progress, both personally and upon a society level, those that bend or push the rules of both society and personal comfort. The motivated.. the “salt” of society so to speak.

And this is where the rub comes in, today’s culture is set against this group; economically, spiritually and in all conscientiousness.

Matthew 5:13 ‘Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, werewith shall it be salted ‘

Hence, IMO, why we are seeing a shift to more and more of the cruise control types or those that have willingly or unwillingly lost control.

Society as a whole has much work to do, but those pulling the strings better realize soon that it is losing its “salt”.. albeit that may be by design by those that crave power and driven by greed.

"Pack93z" wrote:

Yes the cruise control lane, the road most traveled especially here in America. This is an excellent road to take - you work your 40 hours a week - raise a family - go to church on Sundays and you conduct yourself as a respectible citizen and a pillar in your community - but are you righteous? Are you doing all you can to be what is expected of you from God?

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

Sounds to me like the cruise control lane is the happy line. Ignorance is bliss. Yeah, the highs may not be that high, but the lows aren't that low, either. Less broken people. The half-hearted utopia Zombie hates so much.

Originally Posted by: Rockmolder 

That cruise control lane sees the same pair of boobs for 40 years then the guy dies.

Not my idea of a good life by any means.

Originally Posted by: zombieslayer 

Sounds to me like the cruise control lane is the happy line. Ignorance is bliss. Yeah, the highs may not be that high, but the lows aren't that low, either. Less broken people. The half-hearted utopia Zombie hates so much.

Originally Posted by: Rockmolder 

That cruise control lane sees the same pair of boobs for 40 years then the guy dies.

Not my idea of a good life by any means.

Originally Posted by: zombieslayer 

Yes the cruise control lane, the road most traveled especially here in America. This is an excellent road to take - you work your 40 hours a week - raise a family - go to church on Sundays and you conduct yourself as a respectable citizen and a pillar in your community - but are you righteous? Are you doing all you can to be what is expected of you from God?

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

Maybe I am just jealous of the cruise control lane or really despise it upon principle alone.. can't tell for sure.

I have never been afforded the luxury of being in the cruise control lane as an option, life didn't have that in the cards for me.

All I know.. I don't think I could sit back and enjoy it even if I was afforded it. Blinders are too restricting. But that is an empty statement because I can't test it.

Originally Posted by: Pack93z 

Why don't you project yourself to what you would have been...

Originally Posted by: DakotaT