In Washington , DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes.  During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.  After about 3 minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing.  He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule. The musician played continuously.  Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while.  Joshua Bell, one of the  greatest musicians in the world,violin worth 3.5 million was standing right there.

As seen in the Joshua Bell social experiment, conducted by the Washington Post, we are so thrilled about fast forwarding through every day life that we miss out on the simplest things.

“I think some people see how great other people who are older than them have it and then want a life like that which leads to them wanting to hurry things along,” freshmen Londyn Bogseth said. “I am constantly looking forward to the future and getting to make my own decisions and choices.”

America is like the fast forward button on the remote. Basically we see it, we want it and we will rush through anything to get to it. Even if that something is the best moments of our lives.

“Its ironic because technology is continuously invented to save us time,” senior Alex Peuser said. “However we just use that time to do more and more things so our lives are more busy and fast-paced than ever.”

We shouldn’t be pressing fast forward just so we can skip over all the stuff in the middle. Because that stuff in the middle is what makes us who we are. And just like every good movie, to get the full experience out of it, all you have to do is just press play.