Life And It’s Travelers

Life is a journey which we all start rich — full of wonder, passion and curiosity. Some live rich to the end. While others unfortunately die broke.

But as we proceed, we soon find that there are tolls on the roads of life and life demands it’s dollar fine, and that fine is courage. The courage to experience what God would have you experience; the courage to live. Now you might need to pay that one dollar fine every time you reach a toll gate of fear on your journey through life. Nevertheless, the only thing you owe to the life is courage. And life isn’t corrupt; it would never demand that you pay more than what is owed. 

Displaying courage at every point where it is required, is giving at a toll gate, a dollar out of a billion you have — so that you may proceed with your journey and enjoy the pleasures of life. Now all people have a billion too. But many would rather pump millions into illegal channels which are really just mundane things; just to avoid passing the toll gates and their one dollar required fines. They’re stingy to their own souls; so it’s only right that they miss out of the many pleasures of life. And then when they live life constantly “happy-broke”, they envy those whose lives are rich with the joys and wonders they have from the millions they saved by paying the one dollar fines. And envy is a telling of extreme poverty. Envy permits them to continually buy wickedness with resources that they do not have, causing them to owe a fine to bitterness who continues with them through their journeys, so that they’re in debt and unable to afford the simple pleasures of life.

So you see. All people are billionaires, some just run from the toll gates that require the dollar fine; ignorant of the fact that only the roads of the legal tolls display on their sides and ahead, the true beauties that the journey of life is filled with. These people began unjustifiably ignorant; failing to see the folly of being stingy to their souls. They imagine that they’d keep being billionaires, and in trying to live rich, they throw their life’s resources around — going through unnecessary channels that they believe to bring smoother travels: a comfort which of course they believe could only be afforded by the rich. 

So they avoid the roads of the tolls because it’s processing tends to go slow. They live life pursuing and financing the unnecessary routes; as long as they get to live fast. And then when at their journey’s end, believing themselves to have lived, they discover that in skipping the toll gates and their roads, they missed out on the true pleasures that the journey of life had to offer them. Thinking themselves to be rich, they get to the journey’s end broke — with the sad realization that they’re now too broke to afford taking the journey again. 

Life is rich and for the rich. But only the wise enjoy it. And because of the way God has been revealed to people by other people, many people think the bar to abundant life is set very high; and so they stretch, strain and break themselves — just to find that they don’t meet it’s requirements. On the contrary however, the bar to abundant life is set too low, so that all can cross it; yet not allowing for all to cross it. For only the wise could truly be able to cross it; and because most believe themselves to know about things they really do not know about, most wouldn’t be humble or laid down enough to cross it. They imagine God to require the greatest of men to be pleased; the greatest of potential to be impressed; so they keep building themselves taller, stronger, greater; thinking that they build themselves into creatures that anyone, even God, could be proud of. They think they build themselves into creatures worthy of the kingdom of heaven. But in truth, they render themselves unfit for it; as only the smallest and humblest of men please God. For the humble are the wise; and it is only them who are smart enough to solve the riddles of life and attain the pleasures of eternal life.