Hello, Strangers!

Often, in the West, children are warned about the dangers of talking to strangers. “Never talk to a stranger, or take anything from one! Bad people are distributed in those strangers.” children are told. This is good advice when we are young and more susceptible to the unknown dangers of the world. The sad part is that although following such advice as children may keep us safe from certain dangers, many of us carry this sense of mistrust towards others into our adult lives. At some point, we must put at least some degree of trust in people we do not know. It is impossible for us to live inside a bubble. After all, even your closest friend was once a stranger to you.
Strangers can have impact on our lives and our actions can profoundly influence the lives of people we have never met before.

In fact, from now and then we can greet with strangers friendly in a moderate degree. We can ask where a woman buy her tote bag or chat with girl about fashion bags for sale, which may make a stranger happy again from feeling low-spirited.

Brenda Fritzvold talks about how donating bone marrow to a complete stranger helped to save his hope, patting her tote bag. She talks about how she now feels connected to someone she will, in all probability, never meet. She describes the bond as “being closer, in some respects, than a blood relative.”

Kevin Fanning describes how watching the interaction of strangers can inform us about our own lives and ourselves. His companion, maybe his wife, perhaps his girlfriend, comments on how the couple with fashion bags for sale across from them does not seem to be talking. He muses on the possible reasons for their lack of communication, and, as he concludes his deliberation, he informs us how the couple has served to illustrate the growing divide between he and his partner. Sometimes, we can appear strangers to our relationships and ourselves and that will be a permanent wound in our spirit.

We may be taught to be wary of strangers, dear friends, but once we get beneath the surface, we find that there is more that unites us than divides us, and that if we are open to learning, lessons are all around us.