People Watching

Have you ever sat and people watched? Or gone somewhere and saw someone that used to "know" or used to hang out with? Do you ever wonder what they're doing, how their lives are going, or how they're feeling? Do you still think you "know" them or are they just apart of the memories that you have collected over the span of your life?

I do this everyday, but today was especially intriguing for me.

I sat down, and for once I didn't think about how I was doing, or the trouble that I had.

I thought about others.

I looked at the pregnant girl (she couldn't have been older then 18) and wondered if she thought that what was happening to her was a blessing or a curse. I looked at the old couple standing in the cash register line and wondered how they met, and what trouble they had gone through.

For once, I felt curious for other people and wished I had the ability to get to know every one of those people. I want to know their likes/dislikes, what makes them happy, the trouble they had gone through in life.

But I suppose I will never know, because they were all strangers to me.

But even now, I believe even those closest to me are strangers.

And that I am possibly a stranger to myself.

I haven't got that one figured out yet.