Life on the Road

In E.M. Foster's The Other Side of the Hedge the man on the road mentions his brother in the very beginning. He says, "At first I thought I was going to be like my brother, whom I had had to leave by the roadside a year or two round the corner. He had wasted his breath on singing, and his strength on helping others. But I had traveled more wisely, and now it was only the monotony of the highway that oppressed me." This quote got me thinking, what kind of horrible world would I live in if helping someone in need was considered a weakness, and expressing joy through singing was frowned upon. Then I thought, it's that sort of the opinion that the world is headed to now? While there is still good in the world, there seems to be a lot more bad. In a lot of ways we are already like the people running around along a road that leads to goodness knows where. Fortunately, that is hope that for Christians that one day they will get to the other side.

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