The world goes round.

"You must widen your gaze" a line from the bad guy in Sherlock Holmes I think Blackwell was his name or something like that but that particular line has stuck with me for the last few days. As a person in today's society my little bubble is my gaze, my immediate surroundings, what's going on with ME that is all we see. We have a disease of shortsightedness  in the world today. And I know I'm a culprit of this my life has been a culmination of choices for the here and now my gaze has been short and naive. Life is short I've come to understand and if you keep your gaze short then each day will pass by and nothing will be achieved. You will live your life for with no meaning instead of reaching for something that in the end would benefit you rather then keep you stuck in the same old rut. I think that's what I'm in now sort of a rut. Days pass by and I feel as if nothing has changed, nothing is achieved as if I've wasted that day. In essence I have wasted it but as the days becomes weeks and weeks months then the realization of your wasted existence finally smacks you in the face. I called this post The world goes round because even in all of shortsightedness and our wasted time the world truly continues to turn as if your life means nothing in the overall scheme of things, really gives you perspective on how giant our world actually is. Right now a person is dieing of starvation, right now a child is born, right now rain is falling, the world is so large and filled with SO much that we as human beings cannot truly grasp it. Something I always think about when I'm driving is that there are all these cars next to me and each car is driven by someone. And that person has somewhere to be has something to do and has a life.I have no idea what their life has been like or who they are. Now that's just a little traffic on an Idaho freeway but imagine California, New York, Tokyo every person on those streets every person walking on the sidewalks everyone has a story everyone has a life lived and ready to be lived but no matter what they're going through or what you're going through the world keeps turning people go on their daily routines and nothing has changed in the overall flow of humanity. Really gives you perspective and shows you how truly tiny were in the grand architecture of human life. I feel repetitive talking about the "flow of humanity" but even still I can't truly understand what that even is. Me as an American seeing and having practically everything I could ask for but still taking it for granted. But a child with no family has to live on the streets and beg just to push the hunger pains away. That is our humanity. Our humanity is that we Americans are richer than 90% of the worlds population. and yet we trillions of dollars in debt. Truthfully I can't understand what the "Flow of humanity" is because there are so many people that come from so many different walks of life that I could never even fathom. I guess it goes to say that you truly can't understand someone until you've walked a mile in there shoes. I guess all we can do is do our best. To have sympathy for those in need but not just that to see it, understand it, and fix it. This post has kind of been all over the place but these are just things that have been swirling around in my head lately. Let me know what you think in the comments.