Perspective

 Have you ever driven across one of these highways in our land and looked at the pastoral scenes of the farms all tucked in their little nooks in the hills? Farm houses and barns and silos with fields stretched out in front of them? Fields stretched out up to the highway your driving on.

 Have you ever thought about the people living in those houses and by those fields and wondered if they ever dream of just getting off the farm and driving down the road? The people on the farm who want to just get away and drive.

 Then, there are people driving by on the road who just want to get off and live on the farm. Which is better? Which is more useful? Without the people on the farms that everybody love to hate the smell of, the people in those trucks up there on the road wouldn't be able to drive. They'd have no milk to haul, no grain to haul. No food to eat, no vegetables to haul on the reefers. But without those trucks out there that everybody loves to hate, the people on the farm would have nothing either. There would be no cars for them to drive, no fruits and vegetables to eat for a little variety. No income from shipping out the product they work so hard to grow.

 Whether you work with concrete or building or sitting in an office working a calculator you need the farm and the road both. Without the farm you wouldn't have anything to eat or build with and without the road you wouldn't have anything. Sometimes I think the thing we should rememeber is that both can get in your blood. No matter how much you wish different you can't get the farm with its smells and dirt and grease and beauty out of you. The tractors and cows and silage and fresh cut hay. And no matter how you may wish differently you can't get the highways and byways and diesel (the kind with no dye in it) and the white lines flashing by past your window out of your system. The straight pipes and jake brakes and chrome and chicken lights.

 But then there are those who have both fighting for dominance. Those who want to farm but can't stand being in the same place for more than a few months. I'm beginning to think this may have something to do with the place in the Bible that says in whatsoever state you are in, to be content.

 To the farmers who wanna leave? Keep dreaming, go get your CDL and try it out. But beware, you may be still trying it in 11 years. And to those truckers? Keep dreaming and doing what you're doing so you can get your farm. Just remember to keep a truck around so you can deliver your crops and cows to market and get your white line fix every so often.