Easy Street

By: Christina Borger
Posted In: Opinion

Easy Street; it’s a place that everyone wishes they can drive to and stay for a little while. Sometimes Easy Street finds its way to us after periods of difficulty, while other times we stubble upon it when we least expect it. Life on Easy Street seems to just roll off our tongues like dice off our fingertips at a Roulette table. But wait; whenever the livin’s easy, we should prepare ourselves for yet another challenge to cross our path in the near future.

Easy is hard to come by lately, what with the many challenges that life tosses our way at this point in our journey. Choices grow more difficult to make, relationships become more serious, friendships are of the essence. We are at the cross roads of life as we have known it and life as it will be for the future. At that crossroad, we are faced with a series of decisions from what we are going to be when we “grow up” to who we are going to take with us on the next part of our life journey.

When things start getting serious for us, we encounter some questioning. This questioning usually originates from those who love us most, including ourselves. A mother always badgers her children because she cares; at least that is what mine always told me. To this day, I still get “badgered” with questions both by her and my own self-doubt.

“What did you eat today?” “Is all your work done?” “Are you sure that you want to take on this much?” “Is this how you want to spend the rest of your life?” “Is he really someone that you can say cares about you as much as you care about him?”

A mother’s questions intensify over time as life seems to pose more serious choices and life altering events. But the voice inside my head can ask just as many domineering and badgering questions in times of perplexity.

The little voice inside our heads never ceases to talk. The little voice combined with the questioning of others can leave us with new clarity or more confusion. But one thing that neither voice we hear nor listen to can do is provide us with the time required for us to sort things out ourselves. Once that is accomplished, there it is; Easy Street. It’s bold, beautiful, and as free as can be. We can roll down the windows, let our hair blow in the wind and cruise down the boulevard on a warm sunny day. Yes, you have arrived. Easy Street is here.