Running in the Park and the Group Mentality

I slept wonderfully last night since I had coffee-induced insomnia the previous night. It was so hard to wake up this morning but I managed to drag myself out of bed at around 10am. I didn't want to go for that run in the park but I forced myself. Once I stepped out into the bright sunny outdoors, my mood changed instantly. It was warm, sunny and not a cloud in the sky (Perth has the bluest cloudless skies I've ever seen). As I was running, I heard and saw birds around me. There are so many species and they are very colourful as well. There were parrots (red ones, green ones...) flying from one tree to the next as I ran along. It was as if they were running with me. Sometimes I will see Galahs...they are cute parrots with pink heads and grey bodies. They seem a bit dumb because when you approach them, they try to run away instead of flying off. But Galahs are soooo cute. It was weird seeing parrots flying free in the wild at first. I'm more used to it now but sometimes I still am taken aback by it all.

As I continued my run, I came across a row of narrow cages...like batting cages. They are cricket (the game, not the insect) practice cages!!! At the end of each one was a wicket too! (Those 3 little metal posts behind the batter). Further on, there was a huge footy field --- Australian Rules football has 4 posts at each end of the field (2 big ones in the middle and 2 smaller flanking the middle ones).

I've noticed from walking around that no matter where you are in the world or whichever city, people are all the same! I don't understand that "group" mentality. What is it about groups that make people so inconsiderate and unaware? They take up space on the sidewalk, walk slowly, and don't move out of the way when people are trying to pass. They also forget how to think independantly. When you pose a question to a group, they look at you blankly until one of them answers and the rest follow. Mathematically, the number of people in a group is inversely proportional to their total IQ level (ie. the more people, the dumber they get as a whole). My friend put it best when she quoted another friend of hers when she said that "the combined IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in that group". LOL