Last night while making my way home on the bus we hit heavy traffic on Park Lane. This isn’t unusual, and therefore went unnoticed for five, maybe six minutes. Soon however, it began. The tutting.
It started off faintly… tut… tut… tut, but soon it became louder and more frequent, TUT, TUT, TUT, followed by sighs… TUT, TUT, TUT -SIGH-, TUT, TUT, TUT.
After sitting through about fifteen minutes of this, we rolled up alongside the cause of the traffic – a critically injured motorcyclist and a hysterical car-driver being comforted by the Police. And you know what I heard next? One single ‘tut’ from the man sitting next to me.
It got me thinking about how so many people feel like the world owes them something. What use does tutting do? In that particular example, if the driver of the bus gave all passengers the option to get off the bus and walk the remainder of their journey would they have? Sure, a few would – but the majority, even the ones who only had a couple of stops to go would have rather stayed on the bus, opting instead to spend half an hour complaining about missing Who Wants to be a Millionaire while a poor motorcyclist bleeds alongside them.
For a more light hearted example of people believing the world owes them something, see the below video of Louis C.K. – an American stand up comedian, talking about technology with Conan last year.
In summary, the world is neither with you or against you. It’s owes you nothing, but it’s not here to take from you either. In the recent words of Conan O’Brien – “Please don’t be cynical. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
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