One of my
favorite reads of all time is James Dashner's Maze Runner series. As a fan of
all four of the books, I also enjoyed the movies, simply because of the visuals
of the Glade, the Maze, and the Grievers. For those of you who has not had a
chance to read the books or see the movies, you have my word that they are not a
waste of money. Although I would recommend the books before the movies simply because they
are just better. The reason the Maze Runner is a focal point in this post is
for no other reason then the Maze. I want to use the maze as an example of life
and the challenges we all face day-to-day. The maze in the Maze Runner is
designed to change every night, so if you run the maze daily looking for a
way out, documenting all the wrong turns, dead ends, and the scary monsters
that you face, you would start to think that all the information that you collect would seem not to matter, because the maze will change by the time you wake up
to run it again, and there would be no way to tell what will be in store. The purpose of the maze is to take away hope. This is life, we all have our maze that we are running, that
no matter what we do, will change every day. Our maze will forever be altering,
no matter how much we try to keep it from doing so, because we didn't design it. Even though we have no way
to control which wall will turn and which obstacles we will have to face, we
can choose to get up every day and run it. There is going to be hurdles,
barriers, stumbling blocks, deterrents, disadvantages, however you want to
describe a problem, there will be one in every path that we choose. Life is not
about avoiding these things, you have to get up and face them. You have to get
up and choose a path daily, knowing that the next day, that path will no longer be
there. You have to gain as much knowledge as you can from that day, because in the
end, there will be a way out, and if you run enough paths, and take on enough
obstacles, you will find that hidden door, and you will run through it full of
wisdom and strength.
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