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Could You Imagine

by Danielle Wingfield - Guildford Park, Surrey BC Apr 12, 2010

Do you ever make complete eye contact with strangers? That moment of eyes meeting when you feel so obligated to look away first, but you don’t. You stay in that moment till a car or a person or something else moves between you and gives you that moment to detach from your somewhat forced interaction.

You question why you were so lost in that one person and I usually joke that it's a moment to look into their soul. I like to imagine that in that brief moment of awkwardness I instantly get to know that person, that I just know everything about them, from where they work to their biggest fears. Although I will never see that person again and they will never see me, in that moment when we are staring at each other, we actually make a connection and it is a very meaningful moment.

I know that is probably never the case, and that I just have an overactive imagination. But wouldn’t it be something if that were all it took? If within a moment, we could feel and understand others on a different level. Instead of our forced, “Oh I understand, you’ll get through this,” we could actually feel a true connection and say something with actual value.

This gift of being able to read people like books would force people to show some compassion. Could you imagine?

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I sometimes feel like that

Submitted by Arielle H on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 19:07.

I sometimes feel like that too - you look at someone and they look at you and there is a connection. I think the majority of people pass by hundreds of others every day without making any connection with them at all and it's sad that we only interact with a small circle of people. If we could understand each other just by looking into someone else's eyes, we could communicate better not only with our friends, but with everyone.

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