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. Conceptual metaphors are equally ubiquitous and unconscious.