[56] Creating Movement

Or something like that. Today, "Technically" wasn't any more interesting than yesterday. In fact, I could leave the description of my day like that... and nothing would be missing... except that, I've had an interesting mood about me for a large portion of it. Now, this is purely silly talk, as the frame of mind I'm discussing "Should" just be a day to day frame... and it's silly that it's not for me, but this is my space to ramble, so ramble I will.

I had another of those moments (I imagine most people get them from time to time) where I looked out a window and 'Realized' that every single person... no, every single item, that I could see, had an entire story to it. A History, a Journey, and a "Reason" for being there where it was. When you discuss this, it's kind of 'Duh'... but it's not something you can walk around and 'Really' consider, at least I can't imagine you could... not and ever get anything done. See, after this 'Realization' came a cascade of other related, and somewhat relevant thoughts. 'Where' had these people / things come from, 'Where' were they headed? And then of course realizing that everyone out there, wasn't seeing each other... not like that.

[This is the point where I wrote three more paragraphs that were then eaten by my foolishness... I was stressed, and I went to bed. This is my attempt at duplicating what I had written. It's stressful to think that I 'HAVE' to write EVERYTHING in an editor before posting it... but that seems to be the case... ;?]

Later, on the way home I stopped by the grocery to pick up the ingredients for Chili (The one 'Real' meal that I know how to make, and rather well if I do say so myself. ). On my way out of the store, I noticed a vehicle following me as I walked to my parking spot, with the obvious goal of grabbing my space when I left. This particular store has a terrible parking lot, and you almost 'have' to get lucky to actually find reasonable parking. As it would take a few moments to get my stuff together, and ride out (The one 'big' downside to driving a scooter), I decided to pull my scooter out of the space, and let them park.

This prompted them to comment on two separate occasions about "How nice I was.", and strangely enough, this kind of irked me. Not them, but the fact that so little an action could inspire that kind of response, instead of just a "Thanks". It means that the 'normal' expectation for people is such that doing something, that cost me nothing of measurable value, and benefited another is abnormal. ;? This got me to thinking about 'why' this was, and 'what' could be done to change this.

Unfortunately, the reality is that any system developed would have to provide some kind of 'Reward' (Goes against the very 'nature' of the idea... but people are people, and until we've changed that, you work with what you have. ) to keep the the ripples from petering off too soon. Of course, I eventually remembered that there was a book turned movie about this very thing [link] , and while I was trying to design a system that would be self sustaining in some fashion, it turns out that others have apparently had a similar idea... [link] [link] [link] Now I'm left to wonder if they haven't been successful enough to reach "Mind Share" because of an inherent flaw in their execution... or because of a difficulty in pushing the idea...

An interesting day... in my head at least.

[Photo Observation] No... just no. I had an idea, and I very soundly killed it from behind the lens. I am ashamed. ;?


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