Drive to Hell

I found myself stuck on the freeway for six hours on a Saturday afternoon, fires engulfing the mountains on each side of the freeway. Little did I know that my normally 30 minute drive to Pomona would transform into a six hour drive to hell. At one o'clock in the afternoon the sky was as black as night time, with an orange and pink tint, only this orange did not symbolize a beautiful sunset, it symbolized insurmountable fires that firefighters have been fighting for days as they spread across California. I have never seen anything like it, the sun was bright red and the smoke was so thick people could barely drive through it. As I was sitting in bumper to bumper traffic I looked around only to realize that the only thing between those mountains and me were lots and lots of trees. Great! The situation was definitely looking like a grim one.

As traffic began to advance a little bit, there was an entrance to the freeway. Let me repeat AN ENTRANCE, not an exit. And cars actually started driving over brush and flowers up the entrance, going in the wrong direction. What? I mean we weren't stranded on that freeway, police cars were everywhere and the fire was really no where near us. But it was amazing to see how people lose their rationale when a disaster hits, and all law and order goes out the door. It was almost disgustingly barbaric, each car fighting to drive up bushes to just to get off the freeway. And then drive up an entrance. Its like human nature just took over, and all social contract theories and rules and regulations went out the door. It sort of makes one see how animalistic humans really are, and how society changed them in a truly unnatural way. What would we be like without laws? Its is a save yourself type of world. Throughout our life teachers, friends, and parents teach us to care for others and help those who are in need. But that Saturday afternoon I realized that years of education and brainwash cannot overrule human instinct. When disaster hit, it was each car for itself. No one had faith in law enforcement or the system, people took matters to their own hands.