Do we actually really see one another? Sure, you are in a hurry and might not recognize someone, but to not see someone you work with for x amount of time in another setting? Who might be working a cash register, or making your coffee as a second job? Do we just go through the motions and pass each other by? They did an experiment where they dressed up people’s family members and spouses as homeless people, and their significant others, husbands, wives, brothers, and sisters didn’t even notice that was someone they knew. Are we in such a hurry to get where we are going, so self-absorbed in our own lives that we can’t see a person sobbing, a mother needing a hand, a kid whose umbrella got away from them? We are afraid of being labeled creepy or weird if we do something nice, we have become a world of suspicious first, grateful later. This includes myself, rushing to get all my errands done, not taking the time to see the person who is handing out samples, to just smile at the lady next to me buying a head a cabbage. We bakers and cooks, chefs, and bloggers make food for a living, feed it to our family and friends, to give back, and be noticed, so let’s take that same sense of giving and just say hey or look at one another. We might just make a new friend.
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