I am often fascinated by the idea that; our choices determine one life as they exclude another. We make choices throughout the day; to listen, to ignore, to inquire, or to close-off. These are subtle choices driven by forces beyond our recognition. We can be in a hurry and overlook the expression on a colleague’s face, ”was there something there to pay attention to?” We can leave our home in the morning having put off an opportunity to focus on a loved one, because we were trying to capture the last few fragments of a news report - Not good, not bad, just the choices we make, as we either drive or are driven through our day. What life goes unlived as we make these choices? The following story speaks to these moments and asks the question; “how many other things are we missing?”

A Violinist in the Metro
“A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
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