Sometimes, not often, but sometimes I have this odd urge to reach out and hug a stranger. Usually, it's someone who looks tired, or stressed, or ashamed, or alone, or in physical pain. Yet just imagine the response! I'd be shoved away, questioned by the police, who knows. It's kind of hard to understand. Sometimes when I'm feeling this way, I think about how nice it would be to have someone on the train hug me, some motherly or pateral or grandmotherly figure with kind eyes just patting me on the back, saying, "it's going to be all right." Somehow it would mean even more than someone I know doing this. I think I would collapse in a heap of grateful sobs and my faith in humanity would be restored if something like that were to happen. Of course it doesn't, we're all just strangers to each other, we expect the worst. Human nature is to be cynical. Watch how some people respond to this question, and you'll see what I mean...
2007-01-04
04:15:37
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