Walking into walls happens way more often than it should. Trust me, I know this personally. It has been a while (for which my forehead is thankful) (and yes, I like to think of my forehead being a separate entity from the rest of my body that has its own thought and feelings, therefore, leading to its own inapt, yet sincere thoughts of gratefulness for not walking into walls.) What compels people to walk into walls? It’s not as if we plan it. It’s not as if we don’t see the wall coming. A clear, glass door…maybe, but a wall? Normally, when you happen to witness someone walking into a wall, your first instinct would be to laugh. (Well, maybe that’s just me, some people might ask the wall walker if they were okay…and then laugh.) I’d like to give you a few thoughts on why instead of laughing at the people, we should stand back in awe of how smart or daring they are. Let’s first analyze what a wall is. A wall is, as defined in the dictionary, an upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building. Some people might look at a wall as a barrier, a blockade, or an impediment to whatever is on the other side of the wall. A dare-devil might be trying to defy the person who but the barrier in this certain place. They might be trying to overcome the hindrance of the wall as an effort to prove oneself as powerful and dominant soldier of the free world who will not be restricted by the petty people who make walls. Another option I might run by you, is that maybe people who walk into walls are just really smart. Like I said before, it’s not as if someone can’t see the wall. But maybe the really smart people in the world are just so engulfed in their thoughts that their mind is busy, and while their brain is full of thoughts on how they can achieve world peace and find a cure for cancer, their brains are too full to deal with a thought that would trigger the brain to say ‘Hey, is that a wall? Should I avoid that?” Petty things like not walking into a wall is something that really smart people don’t have time for. So, next time you see someone walking into a wall, maybe instead of holding your gut laughing as you try not to snort, you should stop and think maybe this person is the one that could save the planet from Armageddon. And next time you walk into a wall, instead of feeling embarrassed and wanting to run and hide and become a monk, you should think to yourself, ‘Man, I’m smart.” Then turn to your peers and smile and wave and think in your head about how they should all start bowing down to you because one day…you could save the world.
