It used to be you met interesting people on the train or on the plane. Or at lunch. Now many in our American society think that if you start talking to them on a plane you are interrupting their life because they have their headphones and in like they're listening to something. And if you try to approach somebody just because they either think your salesman or a creep trying to move on them.
It's not that way! It never was that way! People just want to be people. Sadly there are many that take advantage of this and use sales techniques and chatting up people in an effort to make money. But for the most part if you sitting there stuck in line you know you can start a conversation with the people around you or beside you get to know somebody in the experience. We can be part of somebody else's life for a few minutes.
I think that there's a lot of fear about being monitored by the press and by certain political entities in an effort to control everybody. The less we talk to each other the more we scream at each other and the less we think for ourselves and jump to the side that we been told we're part of automatically.
I think that it would be a lot better if we just slow down, sit down, start a conversation with someone if possible. Yes, you'll hear about Jesus, the latest sale, and maybe somebody's grandchildren. But we'll also be more interconnected than we are with our phones.
