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By Lori Erickson
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But what if our mind is like a map and our thoughts, a road trip? What if our travel was not hindered by the limits of speed and time? We could travel back and forth from now to the past to the future as quickly as our minds can think it. I am a traveler. Where do I go and what do I do?
I am revisiting that “friend” who has hurt me so much. I drive to her house many times, but never knock on the door. What do I want to accomplish, anyway? To give her a piece of my mind? It’s clear that she already has a piece of my mind. But I keep driving there anyway.
While in the past, I spot an old piece of my luggage. Curious, I pick it up, put it in my car and head out to the future. The problem is, the old clothes don’t fit anymore, but they are comfortable – at least at first. But After a while, they start to hurt. Pain accompanies me everywhere I visit in the future and makes it impossible to make good decisions.
While in the future I visit the “Jones’” house. After years of trying to keep up with them, I scout them out and smile to myself as I see that now I have the faster car, better house, and bigger yard (after all, I get to decide what happens in my imagination!). Gleefully satisfied, I drive back to my present home and present life but within seconds realize that discouragement is my neighbor.
Sometimes my road trips to the future take me to various public “stages”, where I am successful, admired, and even a little envied by others. My performance is perfect. Here I feel “full”. I feel “more than” others. But the feeling quickly fades and I once again return home to my ordinary life.
My travels to the future are not all like the fairy-tale dreams that I just described. I often drive to scary places too. I most often visit those places after a trip to my past. I may visit a hospital, funeral home, or my “other” future home in a run-down studio apartment. Or I may visit a different kind of stage – one on which I do something embarrassing or dumb.
At the end of the day, as I think about the direction that my thoughts have taken me, the important questions remain the same. Did I even once go to God’s house? Did I travel to any eternal places? Did I visit my friends in the hospital? Did I go to any impoverished places in South America or even the ravished areas of my own city? It seems too often that I just keep hurriedly driving to and fro, and never even notice all the rest stops that God placed along the road.
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I don't think you needed your opening paragraph. In my opinion, I felt drawn in more when you started talking about your type of travel. It was unique, fresh and out of the box. I enjoyed this. It made me stop and think, and that's always a good thing.