Life is like driving a car

I've been made to think about life recently, with all that's been happening, every turn of the corner, there's something new, something to distract me, something to confuse me, something to make me happy, or sad...

So I thought, how's it possible that we only live life once, and it's a linear progression thing? During our lifetime, we can't undo anything, we can't go back and re-visit our past, and try to alter what happened, and we sure's got no premonition of what's going to happen in the future. It's like driving a car in an unknown city, without a 'Reverse' gear...

We don't get a guide map, or a set of guidelines on how to live it, like, our moms don't deliver us with a 'Manual' attached.

As parents, they didn't know how to raise us. And as children, we weren't given any pre-programming on how to act and react towards our parents. And when we become parents, we won't know how to raise our kids either; how to deal with their personalities, what to give, what to hold back...

And life is like that. One way street, no U-turns. What we do in life, every turning, every corner, brings a new twist in life. And the best part about it, some of the roads have no lights. Some are brightly lit, some you turn into and find that it's a dead end, and you have to make a hurtful return, back to the main road. Some might have potholes, some major depressions. Some would be brightly lit, and relatively easy to manouver. Some you'd rather not drive through, but you have to, at the cost of partially wrecking your car.

Sometimes you meet with a highway, sometimes you drive through long and winding roads. Sometimes all the traffice lights are green, and sometimes, all of the are red.

Sometimes the road signs are clear, some are blocked by trees, and sometimes, we're just too engrossed on the road we fail to see them.

So, what we do in life, some might say, would be insignificant to the entire history of man. Unless we invented the wheel, or we invented the light bulb, or something better...

So, we do we still wanna drive on?

Some of us are accidents waiting to happen, others just want to stop driving. But then, we cannot do anything but to keep on driving. Sometimes, you get bumped into, you get wrecked, and you get hurt. But you can't stop driving because of something like that... Just because you can't.

Well, you can lah... provided you kill yourself... but that's not an option...

Life's like that... frustrating at times, but sometimes, the road brings you to green pastures, where the view is just simply beautiful.

We're seemingly given this life by the divine authority of God, and we are given the steering without much training. There's so much power in life, but yet, there's so much we can't do.

Sien... I have all these thoughts in my mind... but I can't put my finger on it...

It's just like this post... pointless...