Some older sketches for today's meanderings. These were done while sitting at Circular Quay, Sydney. It occured to me that old people like to take time and sit down, but young people can't sit still, even if they are forced to wait for somebody, they get all anxious and fidgety. Sometimes they need to take out their mobile phone to distract them, or their iPod or something. When I say young people, I don't mean just teenagers, anyone under the age of 60 even! Our world is buzzing, buzzing, buzzing non stop. I think people take false holidays, even holidays become work with the idea of having to "see" somewhere, capture something, take a photo of a place you have been...people forget to "be" in a place.
When I was younger, I used to love excursions to the city. The daily plight of pedestrians, everyone having to go somewhere. But now, it wears me out, I don't enjoy the city as much because of the energy of people. It is the same as shopping malls. People get angry if you walk too slow in front of them. These people have some place they feel they need to be, as soon as they can! I know how that feels, because yesterday, I was that person. I felt the angry monster inside of me audibly growl as two men ahead of me,were shuffling too slowly! I had to overtake them, just like a vehicle on a freeway... I can imagine now how terrible it made me feel, how for a fleeting moment, I had a lapse and let my ego control me. I am grateful for remembering this.
Life wants you to slow down. Enjoy the view, and see for yourself the strain on people's faces, the people that are fooled by their minds into thinking they have to go somewhere...rather then be here.
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