It is the endless routine of going in circles and it always costs a quarter each turn.
Whether you're riding a horse, fish, zebra ostrich or any other exotic animal, the journey is the same. One complacent, predictable future of left-hand turns.
It is the same each day. Doesn't matter which day of the week or month of the year. The variables like temperature, holidays and weather all change. But the end result? All left-hand turns.
When you finish a grade in school, there is another one waiting for you a couple of months later. When you graduate, there is another 4 years of school preparing for your arrival. When all of your hard work adds up to a degree, there is more hard work already waiting for you in an office called a 'career.'
Maybe that is what the Ecclesiastes author wrote "chasing the wind." Maybe he should have just written, "life is like riding a merry-go-round."
If this is true then I'm amuzed at our amuzement park dilemma. Why do we live out our lives riding the merry-go-round waiting desperately to get off but then feel the regret, sorrow and emptiness of a missed opportunity when we feel our bolted down exotic animal coming to a stand still?
-NW
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