Fighting the Current

the squirrel in the headlights

I am a coward. Courage comes from feeling a fear and facing it down. I fear and I am paralyzed, a deer in the headlights. No, not even a deer in the headlights. People pay attention when they see a deer in the road, they swerve--a deer will cause too much damage to their car. I am a squirrel in the headlights. A squirrel is a little bump in the road which makes things interesting, and, who knows, it might wake up a sleeping driver once in a while, but nothing more. A squirrel is small enough to easily miss. A squirrel is also small enough that some will purposely aim to hit it. It's a tiny, insignificant life which does not matter at all...

That went on from there in my head, but by the time I started writing, I lost part of it.

I really am much better off if I do not think.

Is speaking in metaphors a bad thing? Why do I even ask? I don't care what people think about that. Speaking in metaphors is just something I do, and will continue to do. It can be much easier than being straightforward. I do not always tell the truth, but I rarely outright lie. I do not usually try to mislead, but interpretations will vary. It's not my fault some people cannot think in metaphors.