I have a thing for bridges. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am one of “those people” who will stop to admire and take a picture.
I know there are some people who are paralyzed with fear of heights when crossing a bridge … remind me to tell you a funny story about that.
But I think they are not only beautiful, an amazing reflection of architecture and engineering, but, they are symbolic of so many things.
Sometimes there may be a hurdle in your life and that bridge seems too high, too long and too tiring.
Other times, you see the beauty at the end and you are just so grateful that someone, somewhere, had the foresight to build it to help make things maybe just a little bit easier for the person coming behind them.
So ask yourself:
• Are you happy or content?
• Do you feel stressed during your day?
• How do you feel when you wake up in the morning?
• Are you passionate about what you do everyday?
• What is your biggest health concern today?
• Are you getting enough exercise?
• What do the bridges represent for you in your life?
• Are you helping others with their bridges?
So please feel free to share what bridges mean to you.
And please allow me to share one of my favorite poems…
The Bridge Builder
By Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
