This is Your Life, and it’s Happening Right Now
The train ride home was long, and crowded. I had to stand for most of it, squashed between the sweaty guy and the girl glued to her iphone.
People tend to avoid eye contact, and especially talking to others, for the most part. Some people get annoyed that someone else is taking up too much of their personal space. Some people take up too much space and don’t care, believing themselves to be more important than anyone else.
The trip was delayed and patience was being tested, people pushing and shoving with passive aggression. Announcements about the delays were met with audible tuts and sighes which I’m sure the driver could probably have heard through his door.
We finally reach my stop, the end of the line. The masses went their separate ways and I began my 15 minute walk home in the pouring rain, with no umbrella.
I loved every minute of it.
Every day is similar. I’m surrounded by people who are so caught up in their own journey they don’t look around them, and they don’t appreciate the here and now.
We are all guilty of it, some more than others. We absorb ourselves in our lives and forget to look outwards, to the world that is happening all around us.
Most people complain about the rain. They do their best to avoid it. It’s the same for all of life’s little “inconveniences”. We look upon them negatively, never stopping to simply enjoy the experience, to appreciate the richness that these “inconveniences” bring to our lives, to live in the “now”.
And that is a shame.