While writing this blog post, I am currently on the 20th floor of the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. While curfew was at 12:30, I’m click-clackin away on the keyboard unable to fall asleep. One of the things I have noticed while looking out over the Boston skyline and the south tower of the Boston Sheraton, is that I have my own personal view that no one else has from this room. No one else in the north tower or on this floor has the same view. As you may be thinking right now/waiting for right now, “Why is he doing this?” Well, here’s the reason I’m doing this.
I’m going to make this very easy to understand, this is a palpable extended metaphor. My view from this room is the same as my view of the world and my personal opinions. I see the people in the other tower with either their lights on or off, but each in their own specific situations. I see someone in a room across the way with “I heart 1850”, which is presumably their room. Yesterday they had a more risque saying on their window. Glancing to the left a few floors down are people having a dance party. I have no idea how they have the energy for that right now, but it seems like they’re having a fun time.
But let’s get back to the reason I am writing this. Ignoring the stream of conscious, that previously gave the setting for this narration; I hope to give you an insight on life.
We all have different views of life. Our lives are like the situation that I am currently in (writing this blog post), listening to my Ipod and watching the traffic around the Christian Science Museum and the shenanigans of those in the other tower. I have no idea at all of what the people in other rooms and floors are doing; all I know is what I see from my room. This extends to the concept that you have no idea in life of what other people see and what their opinion is of you or anything else. While I’m not screaming be considerate of everything, go hug trees, and write a book on political correctness, I am saying that everyone has a different view of the world and we must account for this. As previously posted, Robert Fulghum says that when out in the busy world, we must stay together, hold hands, and most importantly, LOOK.
This is all I have to say in this post, I just leave you with this little tidbit of a quote from the song End of All Time by Stars of Track and Field, “Turn off the lights, and watch you glow. To the end of all time, just so I can see the lightning climb.”
End of All Time
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