Interesting observation today... i attribute it to society and our lack of patience... our need for speed... lack of consideration... a commodity of time... and while these all mean something of the same... here i will begin this diatribe... i was waiting at the stop light today... the scene played out much like this... the cross traffic to which I was waiting had been brought to a halt due to 3 senior aged women...waiting patiently for the walk icon to flash on the stop light... one gentle spirit was with a walker... this was during a busy time of day and frankly on a corner that were you to step off to soon...at this particular corner of town those who are approaching tend to do so with speed... to which you could easily be sent to your reward... these were and had been waiting patiently for the icon signal to change from hand to walk signal... to which upon progression thru the walk lane... albeit a slow and steady pace... they were met with again the held up hand... traffic all around had stopped... to a standstill... and in that moment of standstill another gentle lady approached the walk and began to move through as well... i too believe it was a safety in numbers sort of a moment... regardless... traffic was stopped... dead... now from my perspective... this action was acceptable as the three others had only just made it to center stage... by the time all 4 had traversed the walk and traffic began to move again... the light had gone from green to yellow to red... now here in lies my musing... traffic had become stalled from what was north to south... and once the light had turned to red... not only did the two vehicles that were in the most immediate path of the pedestrians did move forward and onward... but the next 3 vehicles from the north and 1 from the south... this action... while admittedly was possibly out of what one would feel was of no better choice... there was an evident moment of... my time is more valuable than yours... and quite possibly even more valuable than a human life... take a moment and ponder these thoughts...
It is hard waiting for the other shoe to drop... this can apply to so many areas of life... financial security... job security... health... children... family... all of these things are difficult enough in their own way... what is most difficult is waiting for another to twist the knife... we as human are such flawed creatures to begin with... with the three fingers that point back as we call out the failure of others... it is enough just to keep the eyes in the back of the head open wide to protect us from the inevitable... often we know that which is about to happen... yet there are times when we never see it coming... it is not always about doing what is right... it is more often about doing what is necessary that gets us into trouble... and there in lies the rub... we do what we feel to be right to make the wheel turn and others just can't bare the thought of not having control... whether gained or earned... and as the aftermath of what is left behind... the question remains......
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