Oblivious

It's been a good weekend. I was quite busy with social events including a game night with some new people and a house warming party. All in all I had a lot of fun. I did take one of my events out of the schedule as I was just feeling too busy. I think that it's good that I can recognize that and pull back from it.

While I was out today I was noticing how oblivious some people seem to be that there is anyone else out there in the world. You know what I'm talking about; people crossing the street slowly even though they are blocking traffic, people in the stores stopping in the middle of the isles to look at something or maybe just talk and keeping anyone else from getting through. It's really more common than I'd like to think. And it bugs me.

Initially I'm bugged because usually they are inconveniencing other people due to their lack of observation. Sometimes I want to scream at them to look around and noticing what they are doing. Would they care? Would they even hear me? I'm not altogether sure. And, for my part, I try and practice my going with the flow and just laughing it off and adjusting rather than letting it make me upset. And yet it still bugs me.

As I think about it, I believe that the part that I find annoying is that they are so disconnected with the world. This seems wrong to me because I am constantly trying to reconnect. I think that connecting with other people is what makes me feel life. Without those connections I feel lost. so what are these oblivious people feeling? Are they "alive"? Perhaps what is so annoying is not that they are so oblivious but rather that I feel that I'm interacting with people that are so far gone they don't want to acknowledge the world. I think that to some extent when I'm not acknowledging other people I too am avoiding the world. And that is a scary thing.

Connect with people. Say hi. Smile. Do Anything you can to see the other people even those we'd prefer not to. This is being alive. This is happiness.