I was driving home from the grocery store yesterday, it is 7 minutes from home and I noticed the car behind me take a shortcut to avoid the traffic light.
I started thinking about how this street was under construction for three and a half years and it finally stopped only about 4 months ago, maybe 6. Isn't it interesting that I can tell you how long the construction, obstruction and annoyance lasted but I cannot tell you for certain how long it's been fixed.
I started thinking about how frustrated we all were during that 3.5 years. How many nails got into tires, the time the car fell into a hole due to a storm and not knowing it existed, how we watched the workers come in early, some take a nap on the sidewalks and most of them leave late after long days and I'm certain many of them withstood the barrage of angry neighbors asking for a timeline.
What occurred to me yesterday is that I can no longer physically feel the frustration anymore that I felt so many times. I cannot physically remember the pain of having to pay for new tires after nails impaled the other ones. I think about how I can now walk my dogs down the street without the danger of construction, walking in the road because the sidewalks are broken and that the equipment is no longer lining the street.
I realized that the construction of our lives is always happening. We are always reshaping, rebuilding, obstructing others and ourselves...all of this to get to the goal or sometimes to stop us from moving in the same direction. And when the goal, the change, the new direction is reached, we let go of the physical sensation of it. Then something else happens and we start construction again. New roads to be built, new maps, new destinations.
The journey isn't always easy, it isn't always simple or pretty, but the destination is something else. You may not always have the destination figured out, or even aware of the journey you are on, but give it time, be patient. This too shall pass. You too will change. The construction on the road of your life comes and goes and there is something to learn from all of it.
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