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I Have Enough Problems
A few days ago, I stood behind a shopping cart at Trader Joe’s and the person using that cart didn’t notice me.
I was browsing bags of potato chips, pineapple-flavored popcorn and others and I looked around and I saw that everyone was deeply engrossed with their shopping lists, or whatever food items they were looking for.
I thought that there would be a point when the person whose shopping cart was in front of snacks that I wanted to look at would move his cart, but he never did.
There was no ‘I’m sorry. Let me move my cart’ or ‘Excuse me’.
Every customer was in their own world.
I consider my observation of everyone in that store as my way of showing everyone respect and perceiving them with dignity.
Every person’s life is too big to be reduced to words.
Since I was a child, I’ve always known a world where nobody saw anyone. It’s no wonder rules and regulations pass all the time without much heed to exceptions and special circumstances.
The lack of noticing people around us has caused us to forget that there are infinite ways that a human life has lived.
The cost of living is sky-high now.
I understand that people around me are selfish. It’s inevitable that people have become…
