Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Change can be a nuisance—even change that leads to “better” things.

Stuck in traffic. Hate it. And I have to stay further behind some annoying vehicles for fear of having a rock crack my windshield.

Dump trucks. Everywhere I drove this week there were dump trucks. Up and down the roads. They are heavy; they stop slowly, start slowly, and drive slowly. Why can’t they just go away?

Prosperity Vehicles: Dump trucks are prosperity vehicles. They enter and exit construction sites. Construction sites indicate new houses, new businesses, new jobs, new income, new opportunity. Prosperity. Dump trucks are leading indicators of prosperity.

Why is it that I hate to see prosperity coming? Well, I want prosperity, but I don’t like those things that have to be done before prosperity; those messy things that annoy me and slow my life and cause me to grumble and all those things.

Change can be a nuisance. The agents of change can be annoying. This is true even for, and especially for, change that leads to better things, like prosperity.

Note to self: next time I have a great idea that will improve the lives of all those around me, consider how I may appear to be a big, slow, messy, damaging dump truck.