Metaphorically Speaking

Dear Readers,

I love a good metaphor.  If I am not the queen of metaphors, I am at least a princess of them.  For some reason, they help my mind process things or put them in a different perspective.

Yesterday I was driving along the highway and it was sunny.  Then it got cloudy and I could see up ahead that there was a rainstorm.  I drove right through it and for a few minutes it was all dark clouds and torrential rain.  But then the rain slowed and the clouds weren't as dark.  And eventually I drove into the sunshine again.

I was thinking that this is really a metaphor for how life is.  One day it's sunny and everything is well.  Then some things happen and it gets a little cloudier.  Before you know it more things happen or the original things become more intense and then you are in a full blown storm.  So you put on your headlights and wipers and try to navigate through it the best you can.  Soon enough the issues of the storm settle down or pass by and though things still seem cloudy for a while, before you know it you are back in the sunshine of life.

As the earth needs real rainstorms in order to nourish and grow, perhaps people need metaphoric rainstorms for the same reasons.  A chance to wash away the surface dirt and give things a brighter perspective on the other side.

On a different note, I cut open my watermelon only to find that it has seeds in it.  Perhaps it makes me spoiled but I am in a place in my life where I do not want to deal with the seeds.  Ugh.  If my conscience didn't get the better of me, it would probably already be in the dumpster.

When life hands you lemons, eat SEEDLESS watermelon.

Until next time...
Peace & Love,
Hope

P.S.  I am going to share one of my most favorite metaphors that I have come up with.  Only a chosen few have had the privilege of hearing this because it takes a certain sense of humor to appreciate it.  I'm going to trust that it will make most of my readers chuckle.

Life is like taking a poop.  If you try to force it to happen you end up strained and uncomfortable with very little results.  If you allow it to happen naturally there is satisfaction and appreciation.  And some days it just comes flying at ya and all you can do is hang on till it's over.