By Jordan Spencer Cunningham on July 15, 2010.
It seems that everyone compares everything to cars so as to make insightful analogies, but I heard today the first one that I actually liked. It brought a smile to my otherwise horrid-looking face and got me thinking.
Tangently speaking, “this got me thinking” is a phrase that only tells other about how much the person saying it doesn’t think. For example, I’ve been thinking a lot lately and generally fill up my free time with some sort of thinking whether it is attached to actions or not. By saying “this got me thinking,” I am lying becaus I already was thinking. It really ought to be “this got me thinking about something that I hadn’t thought about before or wasn’t thinking about lately.” Anyway. Back to the point.
A youth of about 16.5 years of age today gave a talk using a car analogy. Roads are life, cars are people, and the drivers are our spirits. Some cars are sportscars, some are 15-seater vans, and still others are your scratch ‘n’ dent specials. All of them are different and have different qualities and weaknesses. All cars need fuel and upkeep, but the driver needs to stay alert and awake or else he or she may crash or take wrong turns– the driver needs to be nourished, too. The driver also needs to look at the road signs (listen to the prophets) and make sure he or she is taking one of the roads that will lead him or her aright. Many drivers and cars are equipped with a GPS (the Holy Ghost), and those who don’t have one can still get one if they go out and get one. However, there are many drivers who think that they know better and that they don’t need the GPS, so they don’t listen to it and eventually just turn it off. We’re all drivers and cars, and we need to pay attention to the signs, listen to and follow what the GPS directs, nourish our cars, and nourish our drivers, or else we may end up on one-way roads leading to places we find we wish we never went to, broken roads, or where there are no roads at all, stalling and even completely halting our progress towards our final destination.
Kudos to Haden for one of the best analogies I’ve heard.
Published at 9:02 pm.
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