Mad World

Today, I read a story on Facebook and I was really surprised to see how it turned out, so I wanted to share it:

A "guy" plays the violin in the subway for over half and hour. Most of the people walk past, in a hurry and don't even bother to look at him. The couple of people who actually do stop and listen to him hurry off 30 seconds later, after looking at their watch. Only the kids try to stop and listen to the violinist, but they get dragged away by their parents. The "guy" ends up collecting $32, in 45 minutes.

The "guy" is actually the world-famous violinist, Joshua Bell, and he played some of the hardest pieces ever written on a violin which cost nearly four million dollars.

Also, a fact worth noting: this guy performed a concert the previous night. The tickets were sold out, and the cheapest was worth approximately 100 dollars.

So, this makes you wonder: what else are we missing out on when we hurry off to our schedule and try so hard to keep up with the crazy rat race. We keep running in our hamster wheels, round and round, without actually going anywhere.

 

Also, what people tend to do is that they give more importance to objects and performances which have been surrounded by pompous people and decorations, high recommendations and which are "popular". Some people pay hundreds of dollars for a seat at a classical music concert just to say to their society that they've been there, when they never even listen to classical music or appreciate it.

Right now, if you went to a bookstore, you would see books titled "mind control" and "how to manipulate people's minds". You would think  of them as stupid, useless books written about stuff that doesn't even work, just to make money. However, manipulating people is, unfortunately, very easy.

We've been surrounded by all of our work, our ambitions, our responsibilities, that sometimes we cannot find time to just stop and look at the world and its beauties. I'm not telling you to stop in the middle of the road and look at the buildings and the sky; but just remember what you're missing out on to get that promotion.

In this mad world we're living in, take the screws off your hamster wheel and let life take you where ever you want to go.