time to think.

i drive a lot, whether its the twenty minutes to the BYU Salt Lake Center or the 45 minutes from Salt Lake to Provo for practice; i have a lot of time on the road to mainly sing loudly/horribly to music but also time to think.

i often think about the people in the cars that pass by (more often that i pass by, but that's besides the point).

it all started when my dad was in the hospital a couple years ago. when i would "sleep" in his hospital room at night with the machines beeping, the breathing machines wheezing and my dad snoring; i would stare out his window and watch the cars and the people below us. i often wondered if they knew that just a few hundred feet away from them were people in hospital beds suffering every second. whether they're in horrible pain, wishing their family would visit them, or just suffering from the hospital food. this was a really hard time in my life, but for the people below maybe it was the best time of their life.

a year or two later, i went to the same hospital to hold my nephew Spencer for the first time. i had never experienced a hospital like i did then: a happy experience, celebrating the birth of a little boy. while i was smiling from ear to ear, taking pictures of the new grandparents and their first grandchild, i couldn't help but think about the people a few floors above us who were laying awake next to a loved one; worried, stressed, sad and tired, like i did just a few summers ago.

i think it's so interesting that everyone's life is so different from day to day.

while someone might be having the best day, others are experiencing the worst.

so i drive and look at the people in the cars around me and think about what they're day is like. some people might be driving to a hospital to wait (not so patiently) for a doctor, others are celebrating the birth of little ones, some are driving to work to put food on the table, others are driving to a friend's house, some are having a good day, some might be having a really hard day or month. maybe one girl just got engaged or another feels lonely. some are struggling to pay the bills, some are buying their first home. maybe that guy got pulled over today. that lady might not want to get to where she's going. the kids in the back might be screaming, the gas light might have just gone on, that guy just started his dream job, that girl just found out she's pregnant. that old couple is driving to a siblings funeral, or driving to a grandchild's dance recital. maybe someone is just going through the motions waiting for something exciting to happen while others wish they had a day to just relax.

and i'm sure some are hating the drive, while others are enjoying the time to think. 

i didn't mean for this post to be so dramatic or long... just something i've been thinking about.