I was struck by the overwhelming desire to smack myself and about 300 million Americans upside the head this morning. As I sat at a coffee reading my bible and taking time to write in my journal, I started to people watch. What I noticed is, even in Minnesota (the supposed nicest, kindest, state in the country) people are rude, not just others but myself included. We walk around with these blinders on to anyone else. We open doors and walk through not even taking the time to look and see if there is even anyone else behind them that they might want to hold the door for. I saw three people walk in at the same time, none of them even thinking of holding the door for fear that they will have to wait a whopping 30 more seconds for there coffee. Then to see thing 1, thing 2 and thing 3 bolt in the door just to see thing 2 cut off thing 1, assumedly because he wasn’t walking fast enough. All of this to bring up a question. Are we walking around with blinders on or are we just blind?
Have we gotten to a point in our society that we no longer put blinders on because we have been doing it for so long that we are now actually blind to the others around us, blind to anyone else, and blind to any body else’s needs. I ask are we deliberately blocking others out of our lives, or have we done it for so long that it now comes so natural to us that we don’t even realize we are doing it?
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