As we looked at the other people around us, people like us and people probably unlike us, people whose lives might, in its daily routine, be both similar and dissimilar to ours.
We all had a common purpose for meeting up at this familiar place, today, at this time.
It is all about visiting and holding a kind of communion with a loved one, a close family member or relative or friend.
Whose misfortune it is to have, for whatever reason, and for whatever duration.
Had been fated to have travelled the road which leads tho them having been incarcerated in this institution.
The purpose of which is to deny them their liberty and subject them to its routine, for the period of time prescribed by the proverbial 'law of the land.'
With this knowledge of our shared reason for being here, it becomes easy for us to not look at any of the other visitors with anything mildly suggesting being judgemental, or aloofness.
No, it is a sense of humility, of empathy, and quiet reserve, with which us and others conduct ourselves.
Throughout all stages of the process of getting to be seated, on our colour coded chairs, fixed to the floor, opposite the person we came here to see.
In their constant endeavour to achieve increased orderliness and efficiency.
The reception staff are now piloting a number system which ensures that everybody get their turn according to when they arrive.
To be continued!
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