A microcosm of peace

Standing in line to buy a ticket to the zoo today, I was pleased to notice the wide variety of people around me.

Young, old, infants, men, women, boys, girls, Chinese, Spanish, Mexican, Japanese, Korean and many more sorts of diversities that could cause a potential problem in the wrong situation.

Yet today we were apparently all just there to have a good time and tolerant of the fact that everyone else had a right to do this too.

As we made our way around the zoo, I noticed children doing the things children do: cutting in front of people, stepping on people's feet, pushing their way through crowds so they could see better.

Again, no one seemed to have a problem with this. They only saw small children too excited to realize what they were doing.

Sometimes it was annoying. This was the first time I have ever seen such a big crowd at our small local zoo and if it annoyed me to feel so crowded, or to have to shout over the noise sometimes I am sure it did the same to others, but in the end it was really no big deal.

We were all just there to see the zoo and have fun with our loved ones. We wanted this to be a wonderful day and were willing to overlook a lot of the things that would possibly be excuses to be holier than thou, or self righteous, or hurt, or just plain grouchy in order to keep this day special.

If we can do this for an afternoon, why cant we all try a little harder and do it in a world always on the edge of lethal anger.