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This blog is one about symbiosis. Its purpose is to help those out there going through hard times to find solace within. Through the act of questioning our society’s issues and dilemmas, as well as comparing large scale problems to personal ones, we can find a better understanding as who we truly are and how we truly operate. Once we have a firm understanding to this inner dimension our problems will seem less problematic.   This is, perhaps, the grandest of all goals.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

In a Big Damn Hurry

There's nothing like a good ol' snow storm or blizzard to bring out the madness in people. Don't get me wrong, walking through the woods surrounded by the beautiful serenity of nature's purest tears is as calming as ever. However, when people get into their metal monsters and hit the road, something changes. The Jekyll that exists off the road opens up into a road raging Hyde when behind the wheel. All for what; to reach a home full of screaming kids, to pull into the store parking lot five seconds to one minute earlier, just in case the registers have a freak accident and shut down for the evening? The sad thing is that only after crashing into a tree or, worse, into someone else does the inpatient speed-racer realize the futility in flooring their vehicle through the extremely hazardous roads.

So, if you find this to be you on the road, ask yourself: Do I really need to rush through the snow and, honestly, do I really want to get there that much faster?

2 Comments:

Blogger Alanna St. Laurent said...

LOL home full of screaming kids!! I seem to have seen more of the fast, crazy drivers this winter for some reason...

February 21, 2011 at 12:18 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Drive Through Hell - By Charles Bukowski

The people are weary, unhappy, frustrated, the people are
bitter and vengeful, the people are deluded and fearful, the
people are angry and uninventive
and I drive among them on the freeway and they project
what is left of themselves in their manner of driving-
some more hateful, more thwarted than others-
some don't like to be passed, some attempt to keep others
from passing
-some attempt to block lane changes
-some hate cars of a newer, more expensive model
-others in these cars hate the older cars.

the freeway is a circus of cheap and petty emotions, it's
humanity on the move, most of them coming from someplace
they hated and going to another they hate just as much or
more.
the freeways are a lesson in what we have become and
most of the crashes and deaths are the collision
of incomplete beings, of pitiful and demented
lives.
when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of
my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked the
heart
away.

February 27, 2011 at 2:48 PM 

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