Freddogg Off The Chain

Mans search for meaning brought a distraught reflective thinker to the foot of the Himalayas where there was talk of a great hermit prophet at the summit. The man journeyed and it took months to get an audience as thousands from around the world stood in line.
Finally, the audience was granted and the man knelt exhausted. The prophet was blind but saw everything.
“Tell me, sage of the mountain peaks. What do you see? What noises do you hear that I do not? What is the meaning of life?”
“Life is like a bridge my son” and he whisked the man away.
The man was heartened because he understood the metaphor of traveling forward over the current of life experiences but by the time he reached the bottom he had as many questions as answers so he simply turned around and headed back up. Eight months later he knelt once again at the foot of the wisest man on earth.
“Tell me great prophet because I don’t understand. How is life like a bridge”?
The prophet turned towards him and shrugged his shoulders,”So it’s not like a bridge.”

I don’t know about the rest of America but I am cable vision bridged out! Life is like a bridge, tunnel, airplane, train, building and anything else man made. Shit falls down and blows up, people get electrocuted, chain saw trees that drop on their own heads, fall out of boats that come back and slice them to ribbons ,throw rocks at hornets nests and wrestle carnivorous psychotic aquatics and feed great whites under water and film the experience. It’s all high risk, like life itself.
You know that expression in the marriage ceremony? What god has joined together let no man put asunder or is that pull asunder? No matter, what man has joined together is just so much tinker toy bullshit because “One Fine Day” that shit will crumble, rust and be pulled asunder, just pray that you are someplace else. It’s all just luck of the draw.
My heart goes out to victims of this infrastructure failure but do I need to hear how many bridges across this great country of ours are rated 50 percent safe. Life is all about 50 percent. One day you’re here and the next day your not. Pretty simple, approaching beautiful and perfect.
“First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is” Donovan McNabb or somebody?

Freddogg