sure is mighty warm in here...in my animal!
Don't you ever wonder exactly what it's like to be someone else? It's amazing how people can live their everyday lives around certain people whom they know nothing about. We're so programmed to live for ourselves and rush around and get everything we need to do done in minimal time that often we never stop to look around. There are so many interesting people that could change your life out there, and we just whiz past them all the time. This example isn't really very extreme, but it's certainly a demonstration of my point. I was at work yesterday just doing my own thing when a kid I work with, Brent, came up to help me bus off a table. He's always seemed like such a nice kid, but I've never really had a conversation with him. Anyway, long story short, we ended up having a slightly deep conversation about our lives for the next 2 hours of work. It wasn't anything interesting, really. It wasn't anything life changing. But it just hit me the fact that I have worked with this kid the entire summer pretty much, and never knew anything about him except his name until yesterday. I've read that in Europe and places like that the people there are much more slow-living and that they all take time to have conversations and actually live their lives without worrying about work and their horribly overstocked schedules. Maybe I'll move there.
Another thing that got to me yesterday was how people are so afraid of other people. How many times have you let a chance to talk to someone you were really interested in (either as a friend or sexually, but probably mainly the latter) just because you were afraid to go up to them? I went to Blockbuster last night on the way home from work and there was a really cute kid working and as much as it was only like a 5 minute (maximum) period of time that we had some form of conversation, I sensed that he was interested. That sounds so stupid and I know that I phrased it wrong, but I just don't know how else to put it. Anyway, all I really wanted to do was write my number down and flash him a huge smile, but I was too scared. WTF? It's not that big a deal, I know. I'm not in the slightest bit heartbroken over it and I don't even remember what the kid looks like, but it was just like...why? Why are we all so scared of rejection that we will purposely let chances slip from us? Everyone says that a happy life is a very important goal, but people don't strive for it. Boo urns!
I dunno really why I wrote all this, it just happened to be on my mind. I know that I could say that I'll change but I realize that is a difficult thing to do. So I'll just try to change. I can at least promise that. I hope that other people will wake up and realize the closed lives we're all living. Be more daring, people!
<3 <3 <3
Another thing that got to me yesterday was how people are so afraid of other people. How many times have you let a chance to talk to someone you were really interested in (either as a friend or sexually, but probably mainly the latter) just because you were afraid to go up to them? I went to Blockbuster last night on the way home from work and there was a really cute kid working and as much as it was only like a 5 minute (maximum) period of time that we had some form of conversation, I sensed that he was interested. That sounds so stupid and I know that I phrased it wrong, but I just don't know how else to put it. Anyway, all I really wanted to do was write my number down and flash him a huge smile, but I was too scared. WTF? It's not that big a deal, I know. I'm not in the slightest bit heartbroken over it and I don't even remember what the kid looks like, but it was just like...why? Why are we all so scared of rejection that we will purposely let chances slip from us? Everyone says that a happy life is a very important goal, but people don't strive for it. Boo urns!
I dunno really why I wrote all this, it just happened to be on my mind. I know that I could say that I'll change but I realize that is a difficult thing to do. So I'll just try to change. I can at least promise that. I hope that other people will wake up and realize the closed lives we're all living. Be more daring, people!
<3 <3 <3