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No this isn't about living on the street or camping all the time. This is about hiding away from each other as we do. We crouch in our homes with double locks on the doors and turn away from each other as we sit in traffic in our individual cars. We are so afraid that someone might invade our privacy that we don't even let them find out what we are thinking. This mania for privacy often breaks down with a brutal act designed to get attention, to get someone to pay attention to us, to get someone to care, to prove to ourselves that we matter to other people. This is a call to live in the open. To open our doors and watch the world go by. To sit on benches in the park or mall. To ride the bus or walk so we can see other people that live around us. To talk to the person who checks us out at the grocery store. Oh sure, we have our friends that we spend time with, but what about the rest of the world. How many people do you really know that you have contact with? The paper boy, the grocery store clerk, the waitress at you lunch place? Spend a whole day in public. Not just shopping or running around in your car but outside where you can see people. Talk to the clerks you see and the person beside you on the bench and the librarian when you go to the library to read magazines. |