You grow most tired when standing still: City Jam Lessons

The jam in my city is crazy, but once the traffic slows, and engines stall, your eyes are opened to other phenomena. Some road rage here, some impatience there. Then there is passive aggression. On the other lane, a beggar approaches a driver, and before they can declare their intentions, the driver is shaking their head to indicate they have nothing to offer today. The red break lights in the car in front go off, and the cars seem to move for a few seconds, then stops. People hoot, as if that would help, and as you think about that, a motor cyclist sandwiches themselves between the vehicle you are in and the one beside it, almost going off with the side mirrors. And before that scenario is cleared, a street boy is washing your windscreen, and you are forced to raise the lowered windows. In a few, the lad is done, and comes to the now closed window screen asking for a tip for doing what you didn’t ask them to do. The guy behind the wheel refuses to look in that direction, and the lad on the outside gives up and moves to the next ‘client’ and repeats the same. But then, when he is half way through the windscreen, the traffic begins to move, and he lets the motorist go with raised wipers, and windscreen half dirtied. However, in all this, you begin to notice something. Motorists are continuously scouting ad joining the lane that seems to be moving, and when what seemed to move stops, they ‘jump ship’ and join the moving lane. That gets you a lil’ philosophical. For the same concept applies in the highways and byways of life.  

MOTION IS ATTRACTIVE. People want to be with people who are in motion, people want to join companies that seem to be doing well, GROWING, and even at a personal level, people tend to associate with you to the degree that they feel you are progressing. So the next time you wonder what happened that your friends don’t call anymore, don’t want to be with you any more, ask yourself whether your lane is moving. Remember you are like a bicycle, you are never stable (physically, psychologically, socially and otherwise), until you are in motion. The 21^st century market and personal space leaves us with only two choices, to progress or retrogress …for if you attempt stagnation in the busy byways and highways, chances are, you will be knocked, and sometimes you don’t even know by who!

Then someone hoots behind you and realize you had begun to sleep on the wheel…