Do you care?

Do you ever feel people care about others?
Do you?

Most people walk over the streets watching either the floor or ahead their way, but they never try to see what's near them, and of course, what's far doesn't exist in their world. Even if they walk that same path everyday, you could ask randomly about someone that just passed by, even wearing colorful clothes, and they wouldn't know a thing.


We don't care and we won't, we just think about what WE do and what WE want, everything else is nonexistent. Our life as we want it is more important than other's, but it's normal, we have to thing about ourselves before thinking about the rest of the people. But then, what about wanting something that could hurt others? Then we have a dilemma, because we can't just harm people for our benefit, not just like that, and then laws and rules appear.
Rules, we grew up with them and learned to hate them, those are the reason we got grounded so many times and why teachers made us write a hundred times phrases like "I won't eat in class" or "I won't talk while the teacher talks". Oh god, I loved those times, but hated the idea of not being able to do what I wanted because my mom said so.. =(

Okey, back to the topic, We can't just completely think about ourselves and ignore the rest of the world, they are alive and have feelings to, they are important, they are humans, they exist just like you and because of that, we have to think about them as well, about what's best for all of us, not just "YOU". We can't pretend we don't see, it's our world, we live together and have to coexist. We can continue doing what we want, but within some limits, like that we can preserve order and avoid unnecessary fights.

Respect!
You just can't expect others to think about you if you don't do the same.
*Teach with the example.*

Have you ever felt life is a recipe?

Just like when we enter the kitchen and start cooking, we have the ingredients and the exact steps to reach what we call "happiness", but we prefer to add more of this and less of that. Maybe it's just boring to follow the instructions just the way they are written, and that's good because life gets more interesting and somewhat mysterious (we won't know if we added to much salt or if we needed more heat until we try it, right?).

Life has a variety of flavors and colors, and we decide which ones to taste, not always consciously but we do, like when a friend says something that shouldn't be said at that exact moment, we decide whether to ignore it and move on or get upset and yell at him/her. I know sometimes it's very difficult to forget others, it's easier getting angry and blame them than staying calm and accept your fault, I mean, no one like feeling you were wrong, we are "perfect".

And speaking about perfection, we are always taught that humans can make mistakes, but once we do one every single person that notices it will criticize you and then the gossip will get the ears of people like your parents, teachers, friends and even your boss, and there we have a problem.

Why are mistakes such a big deal? Why can't we just say "Oops! I did it again..", correct it and continue walking without everyone staring at you? We know that there's no prefect human, I can bet my car on it, we ALL make mistakes at least once in our life, and only once is impossible. We trip, we fall, we say one thing instead of another, we do crazy things that then regret, we fall in love with someone we don't know, we gossip, we laugh about others and talk behind our friend's back, we add too much salt, we take the cake 10 minutes before from the oven and sometimes we even get burned.

This is life, just like cooking, we can do whatever we want and life will be sure to make of every mistake, a life long experience, so next time we try doing a delicious meal, we will succeed making it the most tasty and colorful of all.