Pushed

Ever look up when you're driving down the freeway or a side road or when you've checked your rearview mirror quickly only to see that when you thought no one was driving closely behind you? Then all of a sudden you looked up again to see that someone has caught up to you just seconds later. what?? "What happened, I just passed all these cars on the road and up ahead there was no one in front and when I looked in my rearview mirror I was leaving two or three cars behind...no on ramps for at least a couple of miles and I'm cruising at a comfortable speed." Makes you feel pushed, huh? Yeah, pushed. I think I'm just at the age where the dynamic of being pushed is not really an option especially when you're traveling down the road of life and that road undoubtedly involves the interaction of others. When we enter this world we are pushed out of the womb, pushed by professional medical personnel to ensure that we are properly vaccinated, pushed through professional protocol to guard against diseases and other debilitating limitations that would infect our human faculties. We're pushed by our employers to perform certain tasks that help contribute to a bigger picture or what they've conjured up in their minds as being important when it really is just trivial after you've thoroughly had an opportunity to really take inventory and assess what the real point of the push was to task you in the first place. Really? When you go to lunch at 12noon like everyone else in this cookie-cutter time window of an hour and you get in the line of one of your favorite lunch spots, only to be squeezed in like a sardine and then pushed to hurry up and read the menu and pushed to hurry up and order and pushed to hurry up and pay with a credit card..."oh no, you've got cash? really? who has time to stand at the register and watch an associate of the restaurant make change and the people behind you are looking at you funny. We're pushed to hurry up and eat, pushed when you go into a public restroom, pushed when you're traveling down a street that you thought you could just cruse down but when you look up somebody's rushed up from behind to make your slow look around a hurried one. So very, very, very interesting life becomes when you take a look around you and see that everyone's pushed!
Being pushed in the sense that I've just described in one thing, but there is a beauty to the madness of being pushed in a more positive light so don't think that being pushed is all bad because it's not. Being pushed by your loved ones to continue with completing your education or beginning a quest to enhance your education is a great push. When you're involved in what you thought was a wonderful relationship but your closest friends closely observe how your relationship is evolving and they push you to the side to speak words of wisdom to you slow down and really take a look at whom you're getting involved with. A push like this can be invaluable, if you're pushed to listen and observe what may be good or not so good for you. That's a extremely helpful push. The push to continue to strive for the best in health and the things that we take discipline to fight against regarding getting better nutrition. That's a healthy push, and we all need it! The push to understand that no one has arrived in life, except to be pushed into the reality that the person right beside you has also been pushed throughout their lifetime too. It makes your understand that pushing and being pushed is not all bad but we'd never have the drive or passion to do something worthwhile or be a leader or volunteer or a great dad or great mom or great sibling or great relative or great grand and etc.
Have I pushed your thinking? Have I pushed you button? Have I pushed to past the superficial into reality about the force of a push? From today on whatever drives you or motivates you or challenges you is really in disguise a push. Answer the call.