The Lookie-Loo!

Have you ever been on the freeway, when all of a sudden, without warning, every car starts to slow down? The fact is, we all have. The reason usually turns out to be a car wreck on the side of the road. We just have to look at the heap of metal, the broken body, the ambulance, the firemen . . . you name it. We have to see it all. I call it, "The Curiosity Syndrome.” We can't help ourselves. It doesn’t matter that we don't want to look, there's just something that draws the eyes to the scene, and brings the foot to the brake. Inevitably, this causes traffic to practically come to a complete stop. Everyone gets annoyed; yet everyone slows down to catch a glimpse. We’re called the lookie-loos.

But what if we became the lookie-loos in our own lives? Think about it; we’re all just speeding through it, barely looking at what’s around us. What if we came down with “The Curiosity Syndrome?” What if we slowed down and really paid attention? I wouldn’t be surprised if we started catching things we’d missed; sort of like seeing a movie several times—each time you see it, you discover something you missed the first and second time. And maybe some of these things would make us express our gratitude for being in our lives. We all tend to take some things for granted, right?

So I say, let’s put on the brakes; become lookie-loos. Let’s take in what we’ve been missing—the good, the bad, and the ugly—this amazing thing called life.