This is profoundly moving. Two strangers connect through a common joy or sorrow neither knew they shared until the author/artist was bold enough to ask and tell someone random - on a bus. How much do we really know about each other? How much difference might it make if each of us smiled at a stranger? Rather than looking straight ahead or burying our face in a newspaper while on public transit or public spaces, what if we looked into the eyes of others? What if we really listened when we ask someone how they're doing? I think these small gestures have huge transformative power. This "Post Secret" is a beautiful reminder to remain open, do talk with strangers and practice random acts of kindness.
I liked this post secret too. What are the odds? I like also, what you wrote about asking someone how they are doing instead of just focusing on yourself. Too often we as a society are conditioned to look out for ourselves instead of others. Such a shame....
ReplyDeleteI read the same post secret and it did make me think, you are right we should talk to strangers or at least smile. This world could be such a kinder place only if we would think about our actions sometimes. Sometimes people look like their mean but they might be really sweet and kind we wouldn't know and it is always wrong to just judge a person by the way they look or what they are doing. We need to look deeper and find the good in people.. These two were complete strangers but yet had something in common.
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