The human
brain and the computer are fascinating technologies. I woke up this morning to a phrase or lyric repeating
in my head, as if a long-ago memory was trying to swim to the surface.
“We
got a long way to go and a short time to get there.”
Had it not
been for the computer, the memory would have remained in the fog of meaningless
verbiage. A few clicks on google search and I got educated to the old
days. The phrase is from a song, a truckin’
song by Jerry Reed, “East Bound and Down”. The chorus repeats,
“East bound and down, loaded up for
truckin’
We’re gonna do what they say can’t
be done.
We’ve got a long way to go and a
short time to get there.
I’m east bound, just watch ole “Bandit”
run.”
It has been
forty years since that kind of trucking was a part of my life, why now? There was a time when the rules did not apply
to the job. Back in those times I used
to run California moving families from here to there with out filling out a log
book for months at a time. Those were
the days when trucking was fun and truckers were respected and trusted. Then the powers that be, tightened the screws making
the profession more complicated and a mere job.
The screw
tightening was not about safety and more about government control and raising money. I must confess to an aversion to
rules. Religion can be defined in the
same manner. The church in which I was
raised had a long list of rules written in the church constitution from the
very first days of its inception in 1906.
If God is all about making us somehow fit for
eternity, this God is boring as are the rules. Could that be one reason why religion has cooled in our country?
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
