The bad spot

You guys won't believe this but I drafted this post on the 7th of October last year, just 5 days after starting this blog....crazy stuff! Anyways read through. I refused to edit it though so you might see some errors or it might even seem incomplete.


That road that used to be smooth cracks a little and is ignored by everyone including you, the next week while driving you notice that the ground is cracked a little but its just nothing obvious, the crack gets wider as more cars run across it and it expands more, one morning you are going to work taking your normal route and notice cars slowing down at a particular point, they are all cross the point one after the other at a slower pace than they were as at yesterday. In your mind you are thinking to yourself what the issue might be. You say a short prayer to you God hoping that there wasn't a bad accident. Then on getting there you recognize the spot to be the bad spot that had a little crack about a week ago. The thing is, just like every other thing that has been left alone, it has grown the way it likes. It has expanded far wider than you can imagine.
        Months pass by and as you are driving to dinner with your partner or friend of the opposite sex. Almost subconsciously, you pedal down as you get to that bad spot, spin your wheels out of the area of the hole on the ground that is very deep, one tire sinks into the bad spot but is supported and balanced out by the second tire that is still on the good side of the road. Your car slowly dives in but in a couple of seconds, with slow and controlled throttling,  you are out of it. As you climb out of the spot, you zoom off towards your destination. This particular act becomes second nature to you that you don't think of it as you do it, it just happens naturally to you without you taking note of it and on the days you even notice it you stop to think to yourself even praise yourself as a very good driver to be able to avoid those pot holes the way you do. The problem is that as time passes by, the hole still stretches wider and deeper until it covers the good part of the road that supports your second tires each time you cross the bad spot. However you do not notice this until the next time you have to take that route....




     
The traffic on that particular day happens to be just too much for you to handle, especially since you are running late to a meeting or maybe to meet up with someone. As you finally get close to the bad spot and swerve to one side of the road like you usually do, you see that the spot has become too wide for one set of tires to escape. You realize that you have to take it very slow in order not to dent the bottom of your car. You slow down just like the rest of the cars that came before you.
       
As your car slowly approaches the hole you regulate your speed by tapping almost rhythmically on your breaks and even though you do it the best way you can, you hear the bottom of your car scrape against the protruded part of what's left of the road. You finally cross over and as usual, you zoom off but this time your thoughts are still on how bad the road has gotten and how you have to check your car for damages. You look back through your rear view mirror and see the number of cars still waiting to cross over. Cars are beginning to run against the traffic and cause hold up on the other side of the road and you realize that they are trying to avoid the bad spot. You think to yourself  "wonder how late i'll be today".

At the end of the day it happens to be that it was a really good day at work. Mostly because of the beautiful lady at your office that finally agreed to go on a date with you on Saturday. As you drive home that Friday night you are thinking of where to take her to the next evening and you finally settle on your usual hangout spot.The next evening, you pick her up from her house and drive out without even thinking of the route. You are too excited and start speeding a little bit over what you usually do when you are conscious of the obstacle that is ahead. As you approach the bad spot, you do not remember it's presence at all until the very last second and thanks to a reflexively triggered memory. You turn just on time to see the bad spot but not on time to swerve out of the way, you slam your foot on the breaks but it's a little too late...


Metals collide with asphalt, pieces of metal go up in the air and back down, the loud sound of the accident echoes through the night until it dies out and all that's left is the sound of the engine. The engine in the car is still running but noticeably and audibly damaged. You look over at the lady beside you, the lady you have been meaning to impress and you feel an uncomfortable twist in your stomach. The good news is that she isn't hurt and neither are you. You look around and realize that you were too distracted by the moment to realize that the road is no more being used by anyone. On getting down you realize that the damage done to the car is too much and it won't be fixable that night. You look down at the bad spot but it isn't a spot anymore right now it's a gaping hole and your eyes widen in horror of how bad it has gotten. You have no option but to call a tow truck to get the vehicle out of there. You pick up your phone and call the tow truck and in a space of 10 -30 mins, it arrives. Both you and your date get into the truck, there are no words spoken but you know the date is canceled. The uncomfortable feeling still lingers in your stomach, the drive is a long and silent one and your thoughts keep swimming laps around your brain. Within those thoughts, one particular one seems to hang around a lot, it keep repeating like a broken record in your head. You are thinking to yourself....

   "That same road that I used to drive passed without even thinking for a second, first it started keeping me in traffic and now it has wrecked my car and ruined my date"



Now think of your general life. Think of your work, family, relationship and any other part of your life that you can think of. You have duties to do everyday, you have issues to sort out, you have things you have been willing to speak out on but have been holding back on. If you do not speak out on those things and keep piling them up they are going to grow like that little crack on the road. Yes it might be okay to ignore certain things because it's not everything you are to complain about but when it piles up the damage is going to be worse. The most scary part is that the effect always hits you when you are least expecting it. Take care of those issues before the damage gets too bad.