It's all about the shopping cart.

 It's often been said that by little things are great things brought to pass. I do most of the shopping in my family which means I get the experience of being at the store quite often. When you're at the store you will see many different things happening which to me show a small idea of where we are on our development as a community and as individuals. One of these small things I've noticed lately is the lack of people to simply put their shopping carts where they belong.

It's amazing to me to walk from my car (I tend to park far away so I can get some steps in) to the store and see several different shopping carts pushed to different areas they don't belong. Even worse is when I see the shopping carts pushed aside to where they don't belong and the place they do belong is right next to it.

To me this can only signify a couple of things, neither which I'm too fond of. Number one, people aren't intelligent enough to understand how the system was intended to work. I really hope and pray that we haven't come to that. If so, I blame social media and digital media. Number two, people think they are above the rules and respect for others and they don't have to do anything they don't want to because they are more important than everyone else. I am leaning more toward this one. It's also evidenced in the way people drive their cars. This also is not something that brings a smile to my face.

I'd like to think that we as a people aren't too far gone to begin to change some of these trends that I see. I would love to come back to a place where people were respectful of the public places we frequent, understand we aren't any more important than anyone else, and there are very few things in life that are worthy of such impatience and rushing.

So I don't know the answers to all the questions people have in life. Heaven knows I'm not anything spectacular or incredible. What I do know is, it never hurts to put your cart away.