Mari

NenjeisisissIn remember a mini-paradigm shift I experienced one Sunday morning on a subway in New York. People were sitting quietly - some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes closed. It was a calm, peaceful scene.

Then suddenly, a man and his children entered the subway car. The children were so loud and rambunctious that instantly whole climate changed. 

The man sat down next to me and closed his eyes, apparently oblivious to the situation. The children yelling back and forth, throwing things, even grabbing people's papers. And yet, the man sitting next to me did nothing. So, finally with what I felt was unusual patience and restraint, I turned to him and said, "Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn't control them a little more?"

The man lifted his gaze as if to come to a consciousness of the situation for the first time and said softly