"the darkness surrounds us what can we do against it"
I feel like this line sums up the reason alot of people seem to go on road trips. Whether "the darkness" be boredom, discontentment or depression everyone tries to escape it. Everyone wants to be different from the crowd (unless the already are), everyone wants it be happy and feel life, everyone wants to feel a need to live, and a road trip can provide all of these things. I believe the narrator is trying to explain to "John", who probably symbolizes mankind as an entity, that the darkness is all around us, and to break free we must do something insane, buy a big car and drive. Then John reminds him that he needs to watch the road, becasue he is already driving. I think this expresses how we are all already traveling, but when it becomes dark and difficult for us to continue or fufill our basic human needs we forget that we are traveling, we are living and we are moving because we are consumed by the darkness around us. I think the darkness represents death, and when we aren't really living, when our blood isn't pumping, we may feel like death is coming faster than when we are doing something crazy and feel immortal.
Is a short intense life better than a dreary one where you forget your traveling but travel a long time?
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I think they both are trying to keep themselves busy so they won't really realize that it is dark. I feel as if they are in a depressed situation or the darkness depresses them and that is why they are trying to run away from it. Because I know sometimes on a road trip when it gets dark, we would try to keep it lively and talk about things that don't even make sense sometimes just to keep the fear of darkness away. I also kind of get the feeling that they don't know where they are going because it seems as if they are lost and are not wanting to accept that they are lost. And I get that feeling because if you know where you are going, you would be more relaxed then depressed and saying "the darkness surrounds us" which is really depressing.
ReplyDeleteTalking just to escape from the darkness is a good idea, but what does buying a big car have to do with anything?