Life in Black and White

As in the 24th Chapter of Proverbs where Solomon passed by

the field of a sluggard and the field told him a story; the other

morning I walked by a child’s bicycle and a plastic white lawn

chair on my return trip from the toilet to my classroom. It was

o’dark thirty and there was a night spotlight shining on the

basketball court where the child's bike, training wheels,

and chair sat. The rather bright light shined over and through

the chair and reflected off of the bike onto the glossy concrete

floor. As I looked at the floor, the reflection of the white tyres

spoke to me and told me that they represented the beginning of

the journey; they would move the rider forward into the future

over the road of life. The glossy floor spoke and told me that it

represented the shiny new events and opportunities that the

rider would be enticed to participate in as they journeyed. I then

looked at the chair and it whispered to me and informed me it

was the other end of the journey and the shadow represented

the journey travelled, the joys, the sorrows, the challenges, the

disappointments and the victories that will be/have been

experienced during the sojourn. Then they all spoke in harmony

as if to warn me that there is no opportunity for me to make

choices before the start of the sojourn or after the end; I only

have that available to me during the course of the adventure. I

need to understand that and acknowledge the choices and

decisions I make during the journey will decide what

the eventual outcome will be. They warned me to be more mindful

of the inevitable, and to consider carefully what it is, that

the enviable I encounter truly has to offer.