Lobby Thoughts #22

Guards can see things routinely missed by most people. We have families of mice living in the bushes along the parking lot. We have crows feeding their young on the roof's edge. We have regal seagulls scavenging the remains of fast food wrappers. We have the migration of butterflies; what an amazing surprise! We see  mothers being kind...or evil... to their children. We hear screams, we hear the lone sweet songs of the birds. We see young love and old loyal partners. We see the clouds' artwork; the winds' designs, the rains' curtains, the ebb and flow of people. We see beauty and pain, brilliance and foolishness, hatred and love, stellar joy and profound sadness. We can see the world as it is...or though our preconceptions.

Huh? No Ma'am. I am no plaster saint nor fascist demon. I'm just a guard...a human, trying to see.

Being smart is of limited usefulness, perhaps a disadvantage, in many professions. This observation perhaps shows I am not that smart myself.

I sometimes find myself patrolling the parking lot, hoping to meet the dogs people brought in their car or being walked on the street. Yes, dogs build no civilizations but they are more real in their worldly interactions than most people. I build no civilizations either...except in my mind.

I applied for yet another security job last week. I didn't get it. Because I did not have my baccalaureate, I was deemed inadequately educated. I have found that there is little correlation between formal Degrees and one's education. But such requirements make the HR departments' jobs easier.
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." A. Einstein