Ready, Set, GO! Start running. Keep your head straight, look at nothing but the finish line and keep your legs moving. All that you think about is being number one and winning. This is what the most people’s days start like. They wake up in a rush to get to work, and school. Most human beings lives have become a never ending race. We have filled are lives with unnecessary obligations, tests and challenges that we must overcome. Most people live for their requirements and nothing else, but is this the real reason for human life? For the constant stresses and jobs that we have?
Human beings today live life as if it was a competition. A competition about school, college then jobs. So when do we rest? We cannot take breaks to walk in a race because then well be behind. We go on everyday unnoticing the little treasures around us. We never seem to notice the beautiful plants that come to life in the spring or the street performers that sing their heartfelt songs. Life was meant to live not suffer through. While reading “Pearls before Breakfast” I was upset by how many of the men and women did not even stop to listen to Joshua Bell’s performance. In one part of this article, Gene Weingarten says, “if we can’t take the time out of lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth and play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that—then what else are we missing?” It is upsetting to think about how so many beautiful things in life go unnoticed. How we block out extra noises from performers and never notice the wonderful things around us. We become so overwhelmed with unimportant issues and things that we forget to look around and become aware. We fail to see performers like Joshua Bell.
Reading this article was somewhat of an awakening for me. I would hate to be thought of as an inconsiderate person who fails to notice the beauty of the world we live in. I know that I too am a person who ignores the street performers and the other artists on the streets, but after reading this article, I want to change that. “Pearls Before Breakfast” was an interesting article that completely changed my viewpoint on the artists that perform on streets. 