Motorcade, don't we wish

As I was driving home from one of our many appointments, I was stopped in traffic by a police car blocking the road. I had heard that the president was coming to the area; I just didn’t know that it would be in my path. I began to think about the current president and the nominees for the future president. Which brought me to think about Sarah Palin and her baby who has Down Syndrome.

My mind wandered to a thought, how would a vice president be able to attend all the doctor’s visits that are often needed for children like ours or those with a diagnosis? An everyday average person like I, have no idea how this would work. Would there be a motorcade every time they attended a doctor visit? I picture this motorcade going down the highway and as they approach the building you see it surrounded by police officers. As this thought went through my head, it isn’t much different than what we wish it were for us. When we leave the hospital and our world is turned upside down, we wish the world would acknowledge our pain. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a motorcade to escort us home when we have just been given bleak news or spent several days in the hospital, letting the world know what we have just experienced. Only we experience the very opposite, the world continues as it did before. People walk past you and don’t even notice you. People drive by talking on their cell phones, not realizing the life of others.

Being aware of this feeling, sometimes as I’m driving down the road or walking down the street, I think about the families that may be in the hospital or who may have just lost a loved one. I then think of the people who are going past and what they may have experienced, that brings me to smile and say hi or hold the door open for someone. Just doing something simple to a person that may have been through something hard, may make their day just a little bright. And since we can’t see it on their forehead, we should treat everyone as so.