on the road...

ever found yourself on a long ever-winding road to nowhere?....you continue on and on....yet you see no visible end to the journey....no matter how far ahead you look....the path just continues on and on.....winding up and down hill....around the corner or under the bridge.....it's just a never ending road....all around you, the land just rolls on by...ignoring you as you look on ahead for the end that never comes.....the finality that seems an infinite distance away.....but you keep looking ahead....hopefully in the distance, there may be the end that you seek....the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.....so you fixate your senses upon the road ahead....searching for that final destination....meanwhile....all around you.....the world rolls on by.....its natural wonders hidden within the blur that is the trail of your passing....the result of your fixation....what if.......at the end of the road.....you find nothing?......what if.....after your journey, you end up staring up at a dead end?.....looking down a cliff with no other way to go....no other avenue of escape....no house of gold awaiting its master.(namely you)......then you turn and look back up the road you've made your way through.....set your eyes upon the trail of beauty that you've ignored in your search for the beauty that was unseen to you in the first place.....THEN you start to think....."how could I have missed that?".......well....cycling has taught me that much.....if you never take the time to slow down and smell the roses...(or in the case of Singapore, car fumes)....you may never find yourself appreciating the God given wonders that already exist around us.......if we can't accept and appreciate the small gifts already given us, how will we learn to find satisfaction in the greater gifts and rewards awaiting us at the end of the line?......in the afterlife(if you believe it of course.....otherwise you may take it as in the near future if you wish it to be so)......so pause....search for that rose among the thorns.....appreciate the beauty hidden within the roots of trees....within the faces of leaves.....within the eyes of men...and the smiles of women....relish the embrace of the sun....lay your vision upon the light of the moon....tiny little facets of loveliness that will pile up into a mountain of gold....so slow down....take a stroll....ride on into the dark of night....alone...or with a friend....and while your out there...look around you....tell me what do you see....