I get this rant but I also find it too common a complaint and it turns into a self - congratulating rag. I find that I’m just thrilled people are outside and moving. We tend to sit too much, it’s considered the new “smoking” in its detriment to our health. So I rejoice when I see people out and about, whether they have ear buds in, taking pictures, talking on the phone - who am I to judge? They are moving and our bodies need to move, have to move. I say the most important thing is to smile at whoever is out and about, say hello, spread good cheer - we all need it!
Animals survive and act and react but only humans can opt out of this cycle and into the higher realm of inactivity. Just as silences make music more beautiful and pauses make conversations richer in meaning, it is inactivity- that is the moving beyond doing into being- that makes life human. Responding to stimuli alone, satisfying needs as they arise alone makes life nothing more than a cycle of biological survival.
I get this rant but I also find it too common a complaint and it turns into a self - congratulating rag. I find that I’m just thrilled people are outside and moving. We tend to sit too much, it’s considered the new “smoking” in its detriment to our health. So I rejoice when I see people out and about, whether they have ear buds in, taking pictures, talking on the phone - who am I to judge? They are moving and our bodies need to move, have to move. I say the most important thing is to smile at whoever is out and about, say hello, spread good cheer - we all need it!