Tuesday, February 2, 2010

One of the things I've been thinking about life on a big campus...or maybe just life in general...lately is this:

I like to study people. So anytime I walk by someone, I like to look at them and see them listening to their music or looking at their phone or just looking at something else. Sometimes I smile. Sometimes I look away. Sometimes I make up a story about them.
Most of the time, I wonder what their life is like. Where they're going, where they will sleep tonight, what they will do in between. What is their normal, everyday drag. What.
But, man, the though just hits me...I'll never know.
And what's even crazier to me is that I will probably never see that person again. Or if I do, I might not remember them at all, and then it's just the same as never seeing them again. Or that they could eventually cross my path. In a small way, in a big way, in a huge way. And now, standing on this street, NOW, I can't ever know which it is.

And that just blows my mind.