Patience & Un-Punctuality

I took this shot in Downtown LA and I have been thinking of using it to blog about the "time challenged" people, like myself. I had this idea that punctual people should be more patient towards un-punctual people. After all, everything cool never starts on time. Movies, concerts, festivals, parties... And who reads analog clocks anymore?

I just got back from Sequoia National Park today. Let me tell you, I thought I was patient AND un-punctual. Nope. This concept I have been playing around with in my head, I had to apply to myself this past weekend. Patience towards the un-punctual. The whole time I was there, all I did was drive faster to see more stuff. Go go go... See more now now now... In Southern California, we live in a fast pace culture, and I try to slow it down as much as possible. But slowing down time gets hard (especially when texting is so fun and I need to be somewhere five minutes ago), and we all get sucked up into the vacuum of faster faster faster...
So when I was standing in line at the store to buy some ice, and the one person in front of me was taking FOREVER with the small amount of items, I had to remember that I was not in Southern California, and I was a visitor to the giant forest, just like everyone else.

Everything is slower and no one cares. Take a deep breath, and wait.

Alas, a new section to the blog... What I have learned...