Is Thisl Big Enough For All Of Us?

 When a group of people are confined to a limited space where what one person does has to affect the others, we become conscious of how our actions determine the condition of all others in that space. A considerate person, for example, may postpone impending flatulence until they are outside the crowded elevator. Unfortunatly, there seems to be a lot of folks who consider it a right to avoid the need to control bodily function. 

Far from perfect, we could use the analogy  of all the people in the world existing in the confinded space we call Earth. We've fooled ourselvess into thinking that if we can not see one another then out actions affect only us. That attitude has extented beyond the individual level and we are left with the assumption that we cam do what we want ignoring the others trapped in the elevator.

Sorry. Afraid not.

What happens in the front row of the elevator eventually contaminates the air in the whole cubicle. It's time to make a check on how the elevator in which all of us are riding requires consideration of  the other passengers. Like I said, the analogy isn't perfect. But in the world,just as in the elevator, some new folks get on and some get off. We call it being born and dying. After we get off, the next occupants must contend with what we have left behind.

So What?

Apparently, some who are about to get off, care little for the ones who have recently or are about to get on. I don't understand that attitude. (The list of what I don;t understand is getting pretty long.) But my grand children have recently gotten in the elevator and if God grants such, another generation may soon be squeezing into this elevator. That concerns me.The inaction of those of us getting closer to leaving the elevator is leaving a smelly mess for those about to get on.

It's Getting Hot In The Elevator.

It is time for the warming deniers to come to their senses. We have all been treating the elevator like our own space. It's not. We share it and will affect those in it even after we get out. I'm close enough to getting off the elevator to hold my breath until then For those just getting on, we must have compassion.