The traffic

Today I went to the Ackand Art museum and saw a digital presentation of traffic patterns in New York. The streets, cars and traffic lights looked like Pac Man roads and the artist arranged it so that the same pattern never crossed the screen more than once. I felt priviliged to have this bird's eye view, and it reminded me of being on a plane at take off or before landing and seeing the land parcelled out neatly in clean geometric lines. Stadiums look comprehensible, insignificant and pretty from that height, dwarfed by the natural world representing itself in a way it can't on a day to day basis for us suburbanites. The green squares, the dusty rhombuses, the rivers cutting through everything....all of that seems like chaos on the ground level but looks like a clean design from the plane's height.

I thought today how nice it would be if we could envision our lives like that - see the big picture. When I get annoyed with disappointments, distractions, and an inability to be where I want in life, I wish I could zoom out and look at my life from the plane. I wish I could see from the plane just how beautiful and orderly the big picture will be.

But that is life - I guess we fumble through it at times.