But that's not how we know life. If we stop to look at the vocabulary we use to describe life, we find beneath it the conceptual metaphor life is a journey . We cannot talk about life without using the language of travel. Birth is arrival . Death is departure .
Choices are crossroads .
Troubles are potholes or speed bumps . Mistakes take us off the path or onto dead end streets . Take time . Our primary conceptual metaphor for time is time is money . We save, spend, budget, waste, hoard and invest it.