My daughters and I just watched a movie whose soundtrack featured the Tom Cochrane song “Life is a Highway”. What an odious, and sadly telling, metaphor.
The complete lyrics aren’t of interest to me, just that metaphor. What does it mean that life is (or should be) a highway? What are the salient characteristics of highways?
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Life is a street, not a highway
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