Non-Chronological Weekend Observations
I have a fascination with strangers. I find I can use most of my present acquaintances as archetypes against which to compare new people, and then it amuses me to notice all the similarities between the stranger and their familiar counterpart.
This weekend I introduced myself to a dozen or so strangers, at different settings. I’ll probably keep in touch with two of them, and so the reference base grows.
Someone once said, when refuting the idea that “people are either A or B”, that either there is only one type of people, or there are six billion types. I’m leaning toward the “only one type” camp, myself.
All this about people everywhere being similiar is reassuring to someone who moved around from place to place a lot, and will soon again be moving away into the unknown. It’s helpful to think that even if I’d never left California, I’d probably still have a friend much like B and another much like E.
Then again, I know that the people I’m close to now are also unique, and this uniqueness is what I’ll miss most. Even — no, especially — if new acquaintances remind me of them.
I’ve never met a stranger who resembled me as closely as many have resembled my friends. I think, I haven’t found them because people like me are too shy to introduce themself to random people, but then again, obviously they aren’t, as that would be something of a contradiction. So I keep looking.
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