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COLORS AT THE CROSSROAD

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/12/2014 • ( 24 )

Daily Prompt: If You Leave

Photographers, artists, poets: show us CROSSROADS.

At the crossroad, the intersection, you have to wait for the lights.

Red. Yellow. Green.

Yellow, the in-between look-both-ways color. Yellow is the color to make you wait then proceed cautiously.

Red is stop. Don’t go. Dangers lie ahead. Wait until the light changes. If you go when the light is red, who knows what might happen? Will you wait? Or will you dash into traffic, heedless of the outcome?

Green tells you it’s okay, that you are safe. But, are you safe? Just because the light is green and says you can continue on your way, it doesn’t tell you how your journey will turn out or warn you of other hazards.

Green is for going … but life is for living.

There are no colored lights along the road of life. Nothing to warn you of upcoming challenges. You’ll have to make your way on courage and faith.

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Tags: crossroads, Daily prompt, if you leave, intersection, life, safety, traffic lights, yellow

24 replies

Rich Paschall
03/12/2014 • 23:37

Reblogged this on Sunday Night Blog and commented:

Our own crossroads are not so colorfully marked.

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geemolina
03/12/2014 • 22:12

This is beautiful. 🙂 Great post about life and traffic lights at the crossroads. 😉 Definitely life is for living!

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  03/12/2014 • 22:36
  
  Thank you. There is a story in just about everything we see in our world. I knew one day those traffic lights would speak 🙂
  
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  - geemolina
    03/12/2014 • 22:54
    
    I wish I can understand them too. Tehe. I guess I need more training on hearing them out. 😛
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      03/12/2014 • 23:12
      
      Time will do it. As you get older and physically slow, you pay more attention to things near you. Getting older makes you notice things around you more, but you are less able to hike distances, climb, run etc. It’s always a trade. Being young is a temporary condition. Enjoy it!
      
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scrbwly
03/12/2014 • 13:12

I like how you drew lessons for life from traffic lights, and all so apt.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  03/12/2014 • 14:22
  
  I didn’t know I was going to write it until it showed up on screen. I guess it worked 🙂
  
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wscottling
03/12/2014 • 12:47

I remember once a cop said to me that most fender benders are caused by “yellow light excellerators and green light anticipators.” I’m sure that can be applied to life somehow.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  03/12/2014 • 14:23
  
  It certainly sounds profound, doesn’t it?
  
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  - wscottling
    03/12/2014 • 17:51
    
    I always thought so. 🙂 Must be why I remembered it all this time.
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      03/12/2014 • 17:53
      
      You could probably turn that into a post and you’d be seen as wise and a teller of Truth 🙂
      
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Swoosieque
03/12/2014 • 10:51

And when the light is green, which path (street) to take, danger may still be ahead.

Loved the photos!! 😀

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  03/12/2014 • 11:17
  
  I don’t know why I stood there and waited a whole cycle to get all the lights. I must have had a premonition 🙂
  
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  - Swoosieque
    03/12/2014 • 11:29
    
    … or nothing better to do??? 😉
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      03/12/2014 • 14:14
      
      That too.
      
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