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Do you ever stop to think about how many people there actually are in this world? And alone in just America. We see people everyday that we probably will never see again. We pass people walking through stores, driving our cars, going out to dinner and going to the movies. How many times do you do these things and either never see a random person again, or even remember seeing them once before? I started thinking about this after I went to see a movie. I sat there, with all of these people who I didn't know and watched a movie with them. How weird is that? It's only weird because I don't know these people and I probably never will, yet I'm actually doing something with them. When you go out to eat, your having dinner with around 15 to 20 people who you've never met before. Your not literally eating WITH them, but your in the same building eating. Sometimes if a place is small, it's too intimate for me to go and eat there. Too close to people I don't know, too close to eat with and around them. It's a funny thing really.
Every person you see, meet or just pass without even noticing them have families and have homes they go to. Every person you pass has a story, has a life. It's weird to think about because as one person I sometimes don't think about the fact that everyone around me is alive. I know that sounds rediculous, and I'm stating the obvious, but do you actually realize that those people leave wherever your at and go on about their day? That once you can't see them anymore that they're still alive? When your by yourself, or just with the people you know, you don't think about anyone else actually being alive and doing things. You only really realize it when your around people. Let's say you pass me in the store, or in your car...after you pass me my life does not end. I leave the store, I go home, I take everything I bought out of the bags and out of their wrapping. I eat dinner, I watch tv, I talk to my family I DO things. After you don't see me anymore my life does not get put on hold until you see me again. This isn't something that people think about a lot. I don't know if I'm just weird and who else would think about that?
Your at the store buying groceries.
You walk up and down every isle looking for things to buy, to feed yourself and your family.
Your pushing your cart, weaving in and out of people.
Ocassionally you'll look someone in the eyes and maybe smile or say hi.
If someone is in your way, you say excuse me.
You just interacted with someone you don't know, and you will probably never know.
You do this at least 10 to 15 times while in the store. (At least I do)
You ask someone that works there where something that you can't find is.
You push your cart to the check out lane, passing even more people.
You put all of your things on the counter to pay for them, handing your money to a complete stranger.
The tell you to have a nice day. (Wether they mean it or not!)
You tell them thank you. Tell them to also have a nice day. (Wether you mean it or not!)
You leave the store passing again more people you don't know.
You put your things in your car and get in.
You drive home passing who knows how many cars on the way there.
Those cars don't drive themselves, there's people inside!!!! Der
So you pass even more people you don't know, and probably never will.
It's kind of sad and scary at the same time. It's sad because who knows how many of the people you pass each day are really great people and would only enhance your life. It's scary only because (to me...) it kind of lets you know how many people live just around you...in your city in your state, and how big this country really is, and the amount of people in it.
I went out of state, to Arizona actually, and I saw/met so many people I will NEVER see again. It's so strange to me. I don't know why, but it is. And sitting here in my own little world I do not even think about any of those people as being alive and doing anything since I can not see them. It's kind of like people are just decorations for life. Some enhance it, some do not. When you do things, your not alone. When you go places, something to see, someone to ocassionaly talk to. And after I go home to my own world again they are gone. As if to say if I can't see you, you do not exist. Of course until the next time I see you. This is really how I think. And ever since I started writing on this site, and reading other peoples thoughts, feelings and personal stories I come to realize that there are people out there, they do live lives when I cannot see them, life does go on with or without me present. It gives me a sense of being "alive". You all sit at YOUR computer, typing with YOUR fingers, using your MIND, telling YOUR stories about YOUR lives. I'm not an ignorant person, this is just something that if you think about it, do you ever really think of anyone else as being "alive" like you are? That everyone has feelings like you do, everyone feels pain, happiness, sarrow, anger just like you do? That people struggle with problems the same way you do. That people face the same issues in life that you do? That people can see, hear, taste, smell and feel like you do? Something my mom always taught and told me:
1.) When something bad is going on in your life always remeber that someone else has it worse than you do. So don't feel too sorry for yourself.
2.) Treat people how you want to be treated. This is an over used phrase that most people don't really take in, and actually use.
So being taught this, I try my hardest to make people feel comfortable around me, if someone is embarassed I pretend I can't tell, (only because I don't like it when people notice I'm embarassed because it only embarasses me more) I don't make fun of anyone or put them down (Of course to their face, I'm human, I talk shit), if there's something wrong with someone I don't stare at them like they're not human, I smile and say hi to people I don't know only because I'm a nice person and I actually do like sayin hi to random people. I'm not perfect so I do make mistakes, but one thing I can honestly say I have NEVER done in my life is make someone feel bad about the way they look. EVER. I don't even go there. I have nothing to be ashamed of, I have never been made fun of because of my appearences, but I have seen people that do get made fun of or critisized for what they look like. We are who we are, we were born the way we look for a reason, we cannot all look the same and me telling someone that they're (for example) fat and ugly will not change the way they look. And what is the way they look doing to me? Nothing, at all. So why bother?
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." That's a lie. No matter how hard you try not to let someones words hurt you, they do. To some people what others think of them and say to them really hit hard. So watch what you say, be nice to those you know and don't know, smile, be polite and take a look the next time you go to the store, look at ALL of those people you'll never see again, and know that they all have lives after shopping with you! =) (And know that we are all ME's and I am one of them! ; D )
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Posted by JenLyn on 2008-07-28 10:02:07 | Rating: | Views: 36
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that's pretty good!!!!!i love this post so much,and i do have the same feeling sometimes.there are people somewhere being alive,i know that feeling for a long time,just not able to convey it into words,thank you so much!!and that make me realise,how precious the oppotunity for us to get to know the people we know,since the day we start to know each other,they became alive...and i do have the same feeling when i hang around this site,there are people who are expeiriencing the same sorrows...i agree with your mom's quote"When something bad is going on in your life always remeber that someone else has it worse than you do. So don't feel too sorry for yourself.
" lets encourage ourselves with it when we feel sorry for ourselves. wish you happy day:)
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Posted by nina880224
on 2008-07-28 10:27:45
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