The 7 button!
Happens with me so often!
I work on the 7th floor these days, like a lot of other people and more often than not I end up either pushing the 7 button or stop just short of it when I see it lit…
The point is that I move into the elevator with a thought in mind… that I have to get to the 7th floor and that I need to press the button.. the hand is already ready to push the button when it realizes that its already lit!
Think about it for a second about some similar other situations too.. where the mind conditions you to do/think/make/move/expect/reject/want something and by the time you realise its too late you have already done that… just that in those cases, the time lag is lot more than the elevator story that I was talking about!
Typical situations when you first blame someone else for something and then yourself, and then sulk and then feel like an idiot thinking that you made of fool out of yourself! very typical! but a fact… and problem is that its a fact and it was conditioned to happen this way, without it being someone’s fault! but we humans kind of feel better after we have blamed someone for something that went wrong, doesn’t matter if its ourselves! I am not saying that this is correct for 100% of the situations… I know where people are at fault, and I also know that in such cases someone or the other is temporarily blinded by emotions or feelings or what not! I myself being an example of making a complete idiot of myself for one of the biggest decisions of my life sometime back! And at the same time I am also proud of myself for doing a few things that most other people would not have done in similar situations!
Some facts are facts… why what when who and things like that don’t really matter! what matters is that it happened and its past tense! learn and move on!
Having said that I am sure I would press that 7 button tomorrow morning when I enter the elevator! 🙂
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