Day Jam

The very important meeting is thirty minutes away, and the participant has only a fifteen minute drive to reach the appointed place. Of course the interstate is the fastest route, so the choice is made to use this thoroughfare and make the easy drive. Then suddenly it happens. The cars are slowing ahead, and the exit is two and one half miles away. Now the cars are near a stand still, and the exit is still over two miles away. What? There has been an accident? Who said there could be an accident? Who decided that this accident would stall the ability to make the meeting? Who decided that there should be an interruption like this? Doesn't everyone know that there is no time for a day jam?

Isn't it interesting how everything can be moving along just fine and then something gets in the way to stall it? Even when a person is reeling through an old story or fond memory, suddenly the memories fade or the incident is unclear and a log jam occurs in the brain. Some students experience a day jam during a test in school. Preparation has been made, study efforts were there, but when the test question is before the student, nothing comes to mind. Other times one person will be in a conversation with another and in an instant, they forget what they were talking about. It happens to the best of people, and those who have been there, know exactly of what the writer conveys.

So, what is one to do when the proverbial “day jam” comes? Well, for starters if the day jam is on the interstate one might take time to listen to music or a teaching. He or she might also meditate, pray, or look for the emergency lane, but since that last offering might incur a ticket, a person might want to think that one through. If the “day jam” comes during a test a person could just try to use what he or she can remember because this will sometimes jar other thoughts, and if the obstruction, “day jam”, is about a memory or old story, just using the parts that are not so fussy will often aid in remember what was lost.

Anyway, there was a lot more the writer of these words had to say about this, but for the life of him he cannot remember anything except that there is a meeting with tests about memories that has something to do with old stories about jamming, so he better be getting on the interstate to be sure to be there on time.

Until tomorrow...Why Say More?