24 - Don't!

Back from NYC to the inertia and silence of Florida. Practically since location is closer to the belly of the Earth, scientifically much more space is traveled by Floridans in a certain amount of time. Let me call it another example of human vs. nature conflict. A cheesy one! But it's true. For instance, Southerners might enjoy waiting more than Northerners (if they don't they shoot you). Even on the streets. Even when they have the right to go. OK! I exaggerated. They would say it's all because of politeness if not lifestyle. Let's save the lifestyle argument for later. If you don't have time to be polite, what do you do? Ask to the crowds of people in Times Square! They can only be stopped by the police lines purposely drawn in front of them each time lights are red for pedestrians. Yet it's absolutely the best use of those lines ever!

More about politeness, right after my last sentence, I think, in general it's going through the motions (like a lifestyle). In short when you are nice, it's on the surface and just because you are taught to. True! Being polite is one of the most celebrated virtues, yet taken falsely. Real politeness should have a spring in the thought not in the actions alone. Which is very rarely the case! I find myself a hypocrite from time to time (very rarely, my beloved readers...). How embarrassing!

You know this! Automatic behaviors never give the same feeling. Even when those are believed to be not-automatic by the responders. What else is automatic? Rejections from employers probably! Not all though. But the problem is not that!

The problem is you cannot know if something is meant to be for you alone or not! A correspondence addressed to your name makes you feel better naturally and thanks to computer softwares it is so easy to imitate it. A fake letter that looks real. Or words or anything. Doesn't matter.

On the other hand, who would prefer a jersey without his/her name over a jersey with the name. Probably no one. But it's a self acclaimed imitation and everybody knows it. Like theaters or movies or any kind of stories. As long as imitations don't mistakenly take themselves real, that's fine with us. Otherwise the paranoid fear of deception is not fun.

The signal in the picture says, you should wait and give time. Remembering the person on a hot stove, there is very little for some and quite a lot for others. Thanks to relativity, we are to define concepts. ATMs cannot do that. Probably because waiting is not carried out by the machines...

What human society collaborates on is that there must be some signals to organize the way people behave. Nonetheless even when there is a unified single message, there is not. Cause what we hear or perceive is all who we are. Take a look at the picture I took a few nights ago, waiting for a friend. Not for the road to clear for pedestrians.