The theft of your life

Chapter 163

On the road again . . .

The barest hint of dawn can be seen to my left, since I am traveling south, and have been for the last 2 1/2 hours, and this endless road is showing me my fourth state this morning. And it’s not even daylight yet!

Over the course of this week I will have logged well over 30 hours of car travel on the interstates of the eastern United States. Lots of cold dangerous busy highways.

But there’s lots to be learned on these long trips, deep conversations with good friends, Long periods of silence where you can think and solve difficult problems. These are great things to do whether you’re in a car or sitting in your living room. We should do more of them. Often.

Instead, the temptation is to pick up a screen, or tune into Netflix. Americans, and maybe the whole world, seemingly waste their entire lives in front of the TV. Stop watching TV! Start thinking! Start reading!! Start doing something important! But by all means stop watching TV, or movies, or sitcoms, or YouTube, or Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram, or anything else you use to fill the boredom hours of your life.

Instead, Imagine. Create. Think. Accomplish. Make. Do.