Life...in the fast lane

Gentle Reader,

Did you ever wonder? How do I get off this merry-go-round

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 Well the only way I know is found in the Book of Ecclesiastes (One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever) Ecc 1:4  But don't be dismayed Gentle Reader, The wisest Man who ever lived was giving us not a book of doom but a road map of how to "keep off" dead end streets! 

 So lets take so time to investigate the way back from the dead end of your life and mine Ok? Now suppose that you are driving down a dark road , fogey, perhaps slippery and a head you see a sign the says

 What do you do Gentle Reader? I mean really, what do you do? Are  you the adventurous person that just goes ahead or perhaps your more a thoughtful person who thinks to them self "hmm maybe there is a reason for this sign, maybe someone has gone on ahead and scouted out the dangers of this path." 

Imagine that you are driving down a dark rainy night along an unfamiliar winding, narrow road. Your headlights pick up a luminous sign ahead: "dangerous curve, maximum safe speed 25  MPH." Since you do not know the road, you might heed the warning, assuming the previous drivers' experience prompted the erection of the sign. But on the other hand you may choose to ignore it, believing that your skill or "good luck" makes you exempt from the limitations imposed upon those that have traveled this road before. In that case you may very well be added to those statistics of those who pay no attention to the conclusions drawn from the accumulated evidence of the past. 

Ecclesiastes is a book of Wisdom. And Wisdom is a way at looking at life, a way based on observation. The genius of Wisdom is that it announces conclusions reached, not arbitrarily or by special revelation, but at the end of the experience. Wisdom says "This is the way life works."      to be continued...

 

 Fasten your seat belt Gentle Reader, "Here be Dragons...."

 Denis