Ferris Bueller’s Advice for New York (and the rest of us too)

Ferris Bueller’s Advice for New York (and the rest of us too)

There once was a world-famous musician, a woman people spend a lot of money and stand in line for hours to see. She went and played for the public for free in the New York subways…and nobody noticed.

She poured her heart out into the air around her…and nobody listened.

They had a treasure in their midst…and they were too distracted by the phones in their hands to even notice what was right in front of them.

Thanks to modern technology, we have the ability to access all of the knowledge of the whole world within our hands, and yet we are too busy with Facebook and Candy Crush to even notice the wonders which are happening right around us.

In the immortal words of Ferris Beuller, ” Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

 


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