Saturday, September 3, 2011

Adventures in Befriending Total Strangers

Transportation devices are like these conversation breeding machines where everyone is the other's equal. It does't matter if you're a congressman, an eight year old, a hipster, a carpenter...it's like democracy at it's finest. (Or a tyranny where the bus driver is king).

I might be 1 in 1,000 people who feels this way, but 999 times out of 1,000, if you put it out there, the person responds as if they feel that way too. If you put out the genuine vibe, they come back with it. It's like transferring energy or something.

On buses, plains, trains, boats, I have talked, laughed, wept, prayed and shared music with perfect strangers, and I just needed to verbally process that it's one of the best feelings whenever it happens.

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