The world is
a big place,
but it’s
very small.
While you
occupy a large
space on it
in your own
perspective,
you’re really
just a
speck, a tiny little mote.
So, stop
behaving as if
you’re the
only one around.
Or the only
one who matters.
It’s something
I noticed
as we were
digging ourselves
out of the
mountains of heavy
snow that
recently blanketed
us.
The absolute
disregard for anyone
other than one’s
self.
Be it through
shoveling snow into
a pile which
will eventually become
someone else’s
problem or literally
digging out
your parking space but then
moving your
car so you can take up
TWO parking
spaces, and basically indicate
that
everyone else can go screw themselves.
At least you
got your space, Johnny.
Effing
Johnny, man.
I don’t know
where the sense of community,
or
togetherness or a sense of unity ever went;
perhaps it’s
just a myth I’ve persisted in believing,
that good
people will do good things just because they
are good
things to do.
Sure, there
were minor instances of
people
helping others, doing the right thing,
but I
personally witnessed so little of it,
I did what I
could to help, to not be a Johnny.
But it
seemed so, thin?
We’re
nothing as individuals really,
just specks
of cosmic dust hurtling through
Space on a medium
sized rock, and we
really aren’t
that important.
Perhaps not
even worthy of Rock Star parking.
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