The Road
The road doesn’t care how you got on it. It doesn’t care why you travel it.
It simply knows that you were always meant to tread it.
The road doesn’t care that you think everything is a race.
It doesn’t care if you think you are in the lead or so far behind you can’t see the finish line.
The road is simply there to remind you to keep moving forward
It doesn’t care if you put your head down and sprint or tilt your head back and watch the clouds as you trudge along
The road doesn’t care that you think your alone
It simply knows that eventually someone else’s road will cross over yours
The road knows that sometimes those roads intersect for the blink of an eye and sometimes for the rest of your journey
It knows that if you are lucky enough, when you reach the finish, someone will be walking with you that can keep up
Literary Exercises 
Simply beautiful…love it
Likely the most personal piece I have ever posted
I like this one Jack, but I tend toward poetry. It is so personal, yet your experience reflects the human experience, and you speak it here, to heal and understand yourself, which then offers healing and understanding for others. I can read my own story in yours.
It’s so clear here that you’re in the middle of the desolation that comes with loss, but that your beginning to find the anchor of seeing your entire life, its larger meaning and purpose, the requirements of acceptance and faith, and come what may, you’ve committed to your story.
There’s power in that, and the hope of redemption.
Thank you for sharing.
It truly is a long road back and I have met a select few I hoped would walk my path with me longer than they did.
I have to realize that they were writing their own story and I was a very small part of it.
I like that, it’s something I’m learning.
Just keep walking
Today I did. Wrote something that felt like one of my best yet. I know it grew from the seed of our conversation, so of course you deserve a pingback, but I don’t want it to look like a self-serving-pathetic-oh-look-at-my-blog-plea, so let this comment serve as explanation for the coming pingback, and also a thanks for the good conversation.
If nothing else, I was happy to help you work towards a piece you feel good about writing