Dazed

We live in a society of oblivion. I am stymied that everyone around me seems to walk around in a continuous state of semi-consciousness. Students at the school constantly bump into me because they are fixated on typing a text message or too engaged in a conversation to watch where they walk. People cross the street in front of emergency vehicles unaware of the sirens...phone glued to their ear or headphones cutting them off from the world. Commuters crowd the sidewalks in bunches, refusing to budge for those whose commute is by foot on those sidewalks. Drivers regularly refuse right of way to bikers and pedestrians because all they see is the next car they may be able to pull out behind. Co-workers attempt to solve a problem by cutting out the immediate irritation rather than taking in the entire situation and addressing the source. Tunnel vision. Selective hearing. No one seems capable of viewing the big picture anymore. Maybe my training as an artist keeps me biased. I was taught composition...the work as a whole...yes to notice the details, but not get caught up in them.

Why do we continue to live in our own little worlds?