Having been stuck in the house for the last few days with some form of flu, I have become aware that the small parking area outside our window is a microcosm of the world and human behaviour. Now it is perfectly possible that my brain has become addled but stick with me.

There are limited designated parking spots in front of each of the houses, and the system works very well when each person respects that and only uses the spaces which are theirs. It works best when, if you have a visitor, you sacrifice your own spot for theirs and so do not cause any others disruption.
However it starts to fall apart when people take spaces from other people, who in turn, having been inconvenienced, take from others and soon its a free for all, tempers are raised and its every man for themselves.

Trivial though it seems, perhaps there are some lessons here about how we act with our fellow human beings. That we consider them first before ourselves, that we use our limited resources carefully without trying to take from others and that a society based on self interest quickly falls apart.

I don't know what the equivalent was in Jesus time but he certainly knew all this long before we did
"Love your neighbour as yourself." Matthew 22 vs 39