Pick up the Pace

We currently have road construction going on just down the road from where we live. It's on a road that we frequently use to get from here to there. In fact, ALOT of people frequently use it. There was nothing wrong with this road when they began tearing it up last week, they're simply "breaking" it and then fixing it so that it will be wider and allow us to "pick up the pace" of life some more. As if we need to pick up the pace anymore! So...as I was sitting in traffic the other day, waiting to get across the road to hit the ATM and then back over again, I was thinking to myself...our schools budgets are getting cut and teachers are losing their jobs, which will in turn make our classroom sizes bigger, and yet so many of our tax dollars are going to widen the roads so that we can move even faster than we already are, in a life where we can hardly stop to catch our breath. Just some food for thought!