Monday, October 26, 2009
March on soldier girl, can’t you hear the tune?
You don’t listen. It’s true. We all know it. You just do, and it’s always easier to shrug and apologize for past sins that to not do what you want. So you don’t listen.
You’re not the only one. We all do it. The best of us can only admit to a minor awareness of how selfish everyone is. And really, there’s nothing wrong with being selfish. If we weren’t selfish people would never plunk out a mini-me, plan on pre-school while the mini-me is still in utero, intend on our little genus going to med school, and create a geriatrician who will take care of me in my old age. Something that will probably come true as I hurtle through this last decade of childbearing time with no real intention of having a mini-me of my own.
So we don’t listen, not to logic and sense, not to the requests of others, not to our inner intuition. No, we don’t listen.
But we should. We should all really just pay attention.