"So now you're saying Im stupid?" The subject that hereafter shall be described as the "jerk" said indignantly. Inwardly I thought, " it really took you that long to figure out".
It was 1:30 am, and not the most active times of a day, at least fro me. I was sitting at teh welcome desk at the library ( my livelihood for now), reading a nice michael connelly, and sipping cranberry and orange herbal tea, and going about my business of being a library steward. This was the moment when the Jerk enters without a card or pass and expects me to let him in. I refuse. He insists. I still refuse. He becomes rude. I ignore him. He becomes ruder still.I tell him that people are usually smart enough to get their cards. This is the precise when the question in context was asked.
The point this brings me to ( over and above the obvious bickering that I'm doing), is interpersonal interactions.
Why is it that we take every arbitrary person in teh world for granted. Why is it that we believe that it is everyone's job to wait on us. If we are standing in a queue to get a ticket, we curse the tickteer for being so fdamn slow. If we're waiting at a helpdesk, we curse the assisstant for not doing their job. And if noone in particular wold listen to us whine, we would just start talking in really loud voices about how bad the "service" is and terribly teh "system" sucks. Whatever happened to interpersonal respect?!
While Im collecting books off tables, a lady gestures with her index finger for me to come over and answer her numerous queries. One index finger?! Really? Whatever happened to the good ol' " Excuse me, I have a question."?
The issue is however, not just left there. Our sheer neglect of people around us, our utter lack of consideration for them and respect for teh work they do leaves us in an alien world, detached from our surroundings. Not caring. It would sound silly to take a library incident to a global scale, but lets be honest here- Our oblivion stands us disregarding the humanity we are part of, the world we live in, and teh people that make up the world for us. Another person's life doesnt seem as important as ours, nor does another's grief, and nor does his work or aspirations. Where are we headed then? Where is such a world headed?Where do we belong anymore?