We begin life as innocent babies completely dependent on those around us for food, shelter, and love. Hopefully we are fulfilled and can truly count on those who should love us most. Sadly there are some who must find their way alone without the benefit of loving guidance. Time passes and we grow, we live, and we learn. Life isn’t always easy, but we learn from our mistakes as well as from our triumphs.
We learn from example how to eat, mingle, play, and to dress ourselves. From the very beginning of our lives we learn by observation everything we need to know to get through life. We begin our formal education in kindergarten learning the magic of the ABC’s, how to count, and even more importantly how to get along with others. Over the years we acquire more skills from reading to computation. As time goes on each person’s individual talents and blessings come gradually to light. Those who can sing, sing. Those who are artistic, create. Those who are analytical, figure things out for the rest of us and make it all make perfect sense. Some people graduate high school and then darken the halls of higher learning. Still others settle down, get a job, and choose to raise a family. Still others manage to do both.
Eventually we find our soul mate, and use everything we have learned before to embark on a life together. Children come along, and we struggle to make ends meet. We worry and fret, but eventually we find our way. We travel the path of our lives learning life’s lessons as we go, doing what is our fate to do, teach what we need to teach to those who depend on us most, and then we die. Each life is peppered with laughter, sadness, good times, and bad, and hopefully filled with happiness, fulfillment, and love.
Each life is unique and different, and we travel down the road of the life we live and learn at our own pace until next time when I give you another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.
