Friday, August 8, 2014

People we met one way or another


How many people do we pass by in our life? How many faces do we recognize? How many people we missed while we hurrying through life? How many people have our eyes met but went separate ways without a word? A little girl look in my direction as I walk along a park. I caught her eyes but not knowing whether I should look back at her, I forward my steps and passes her. But the way she look at me seems to stir something deeper in me, which lead to this series of questions or rather ponders. How many would we meet again in this lifetime.. Where would we be? 

Questioning these invite my consciousness to be in present, to give attention to people around me at this moment. How do they look, what state of mind are they in? What are they doing? What conversation are they having? What's in their mind? How much assumption we made every day? What other perspective is possible?

Here's a little of what I observes in my commute to office: 

A guy in pastel green shirt holding a bottle of drink that look like lemon honey. The drink drip from the bottle which is probably not tighten enough. He did not notice. 
A lady in black to shirt, speakin over phone via a earpiece. She laugh as she talk, covering her mouth. She is wearing a pair of flats that have a what look like faux snake skin texture. Her hair nearly bun up, pull to the back. Her face is clean with touches of pink blushes. 

Two college girls look pretty alike. Maybe twins. One is tanner than the other. Both have beautiful wide smile. Both carrying same bag design. 

There is a lady breast feeding her baby beneath a aquatic blue covering cloth. 

I can go on and on. It's fun. It's insightful. It's intriguing how humankind don't seems to give much attention to its own kind in daily life. It seems we are living, thinking we are all separate entities, we are each individual. Most of the time we didn't think we have enough time to give attention to anyone else except ourselves; our job, our challenges, our life..our desires.. etc. 

We are big smart mammal with a small view. We grow bigger, having more and more but our views seems to become smaller and smaller as we grow.