True. Another video. And, alas, it may not be the last.
The video below hopes to alert drivers to be aware of bicyclers so that they will drive carefully and share the road. The ad plays upon the tendency of the human mind to be easily distracted to the point of not seeing people or activities right in front of us.
How true it is that we walk (literally and metaphorically) in the direction we are looking.
As an example, my husband with a grin tells the story of his sister's first time driving a motor scooter. When she turned her head to the right to look over her shoulder, the motor scooter veered sharply to the right, nearly taking her off the road. A moment's distraction unexpectedly and drastically changed her direction.
Life seems sometimes like a three-ring circus. As we watch the clowns in one ring, we miss the acrobats in the second ring, and the horses in the third. It seems like we are always going to be missing something. Yet we can take control of our worldview.
It's too easy to let worry, injustice, self-pity, or self-importance preoccupy our thoughts. But this inward-turning is a miniscule part of what's going on in the world at any given moment.
There is wondrous goodness and beauty, kindness and caring filling each day. While some distractions, like the one in the video, are harmless, others can totally grab our attention with startling consequences.
Whatever we focus on becomes a major part of our experience.
So it makes sense to pay attention to the do-gooders -- and that term is used in the best possible sense -- of this world. People who sarcifice and ask nothing in return; people such as deeply devoted religious figures both past and present, as well as unsung heroes: helpers, care givers, rescuers, etc.
Making the effort to discover active goodness and to appreciate the unselfishness of others lifts our thought above the mesmeric replay of tragedy, and we help the world move forward.
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