Today
I drove on I-95 with the car windows down, something I rarely do, and it was
fun, for a change, to feel the outside world roaring in to me as I drove. It
was shrill and sometimes almost harsh on my ears, but it was also sort of
refreshing, in a funny way. It started me wondering whether I could leave the
“windows” of my life open more often, just welcoming in whatever happens to
come along. Could I tolerate – and even say a pleasant hello to – all the
“noise” that life sends to each of us? With my “windows” – my heart, I guess –
wide open, could I learn to let in the bad with the good, and perhaps even find
some wisdom and benefit in the bad? Like some of us, I drive – and live – in a
fairly closed-up way, but this morning’s free-feeling, open-window trip on the
highway showed me the possibilities of living a more unfastened, unenclosed
sort of life. It might make for a fun ride.
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