I have a tendency to talk to practically anyone who’ll make lazy eye contact with me. Unless they’re wielding a pen knife and giving leering looks, I tend to jump into enquiring about their jacket, height, origins, plans and general outlook on life. It makes for lovely bus rides, walks and meandering catch-ups where you learn about the path less taken- people’s pain, challenges, mission, goals and their ultimate positivity at the end what might have been a horribly difficult last ten years.
I think that under everyone’s largely functional veneer is a soul that just really wants to be liked, valued and cared about. We never really know what anyone has been through or what they’re going through, so it’s always a sweet bet to start with kindness and surf everyone’s energy with an open mind 🙂
