A Moment of Value.

I was waiting to cross a busy road in a town today. The traffic flow was unremitting – first one way, then the other, sometimes both ways at once. I was just beginning to think that I might have to stand there for an hour and a half until the school crossing lady turned up with her lollipop which says STOP, when I noticed that an approaching car was slowing and a gap was appearing in the flood. The woman driver gestured to me to cross, and so off I nipped with grateful pace. I smiled, waved and said ‘thank you’ and she smiled and waved back.

Such an incident is a highlight in a grey, scurrying world. It’s pregnant with significance, not the least of which is that it makes me wonder whether living among the human animal might be made to work after all.