Thought #9: Lines

October 29, 2009, 6:46 pm
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Is it some kind of Karmic punishment that lines grow larger the closer I approach? This phenomena alone makes me believe the universe only exists in my head and therefore it is not until I am aware (or there) that the machinations of other life really begins. I think that people wait dormant in the shadows only to be brought to life once I start from the backend of the Costco parking lot. Every step I make forward draws another being to wake. Once awake they make their way strategically into line.

It reminds me in an odd way of Tolkien’s Silmarillion and the story of the dwarves who are made by an impatient son of Ilúvatar and forced into hibernation underground once Ilúvatar discovers them. He only awakens them later when enough time has passed. Strangely enough these folk who fill my food court line also tend to be slow, fat, and short like the dwarves of middle-earth. So, is it merely a coincidence? I’m thinking not.