The interstates, highways and roadways were already built when I started driving. Most of us today are driving in the directions that are already PAVED for us to drive. Every city was mapped out before it was ever created. What is known as the city grid (the roadways going east, west, north and south) were designed usually around a particular theme, landscape, resource or plan. Many cities were developed around rivers, ocean bays for shipping routes, scenic places, valleys or other themes. Each of these themes used to involve trade routes, interstate access, on or nearby already existing travel routes. Other cities were built around the land best for farming, timber or particular crop needs.
The highways, interstates and city roads is what is used to this day as ways and means by which we move, do commerce, work, shop, and engage in relationships. Our behavioral lives are set up around common metaphoric connections and interactions. Relationships are designed around previously “designed and proposed” presets for culture to follow. It is like we were born into an already created system by which we must squeeze our likes, dislikes, passion or purpose into.
Influence is like the road systems. We WILL be influenced by these cultural “grids,” it's just a matter of our choosing who and what we will be influenced by. These “Intersection Influences” were already set in place, therefore, we must chose how, who or what will become the pattern that we build our life around. Choose wisely.
© 2012 by Dr Tim McClure
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