Quick-Seat Chair & X Marks The Spot On A Treasure Map
By Khadi Madama Quick-Seat Chair Wellness Coordinator
So many of us are drawn to treasure maps because they are the stuff that adventures are made of. Our childhood adventures stay with us for a lifetime reminiscing about them as years to on, and somehow never fade from our memories. No matter how small or in what form, from the connect the dots on the back of the cereal box, to a camp scavenger hunt, or on Monday Meatloaf nights when a surprise hard-boiled egg could be found in the center of an otherwise dreary meatloaf. Treasures keep us going in an otherwise everyday sort of world whether you’re a kid or an adult or an adult with the heart of a kid.
That brings me to another X Marks The Spot. Centuries ago when the known world was limited, it was also imagined. Cartographers would draw out the parts of the maps that were known but when it came to the edge of the known world, they would sometimes draw the image of a dragon and the phrase, “Here there be dragons,” to indicate that once you left the comfort zone of the known world, there was no way to know what was ahead or what would happen once you were there. Like Odysseus on his journey to unknown worlds depicted in The Odyssey, my summer reading this year, sometimes there can be a dark cloud or strange fog that obscures our knowledge of where we’re heading.
Ever feel like that when you have had to visit a new medical, industrial or corporate environment? Sure there are elevators, but are there seats available in or near the elevator in case there’s a long wait because there are over 30 floors? And what if those elevators are at the end of those long corridors with barely a place to sit, and the office you finally arrive at, only to be told you have to wait along with others who are ahead of you? Have you ever been in a building where the elevators were no in a lobby, but a measurable distance in an obscure anti-room? For me, walking on hard marble always seems far more tiring than walking along a nature path. Truly, for all you know there may actually be a dragon awaiting you when you finally get inside that office! It’s been known. Having a sense of adventure is one thing, but dealing with the onset of low back pain, an old knee or ankle injury, tendinitis of the hip, a slight difficulty in breathing due to a recent bronchial infection or any other physical situation that is not chronic but can flare up under certain circumstances is something that no self-respecting explorer wants to deal with.
The Quick-Seat Chair exploration map would have a Quick-Seat Chair showing on all the parts of the map and the journey along the way where a Quick-Seat Chair would be placed for safety, well-being and peace of mind. Now, that’s a real prize and it’s worth a king’s ransom. That’s always been a vision of mine and it should be the vision of every large complex because one doesn’t have to have an old lumbago injury in order to need to sit after walking a quarter of a mile on commercial flooring. In a perfect world, these large edifices would take this strategic complex design in consideration and actually plan out these little “seating stations” concept at the outset so that people entering the lobby can find a leaflet that shows where seating is available throughout the complex. That would truly put Quick-Seat Chair on the map and truly that would be an “X Marks The Spot” moment that would seriously enhance the visit to any complex anywhere in the “known” world where fearful dragons no longer mark the spot but are replaced with the pristine image of a Quick-Seat Chair.
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