On the Streets

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People are by far the most interesting creatures to say the least. We have a freewill that and a language that makes us great comunicators. And we have our individuality, our self image, our free thought that makes us completly different than the person next to us. Have you ever wakled down a crowded street and cought eyes with someone? Have you ever wondered what they were thinking? Last week I was wakling home from downtown and I happened to see a young women walking toward me. As we passed each other, our eyes cought and we keept walking while gazing into each others eyes. We follwed each others eyes even as we passed. We keept walking with our heads turned around still taring. It was like a scene in a movie when two people pass and seem to "fall in love". However, this wasn't so. It was just something about the way we looked at each other that keept us in a fixated stare. As we turned around and kept walking we, rather I, seemed to have forgoten about the stare and continued on with my endless rambling of thoughts. However, two days later I read in the paper that a young woman, about 23 years old, had killed herself. I normally don't read the paper, but for some reason I was skimming through it that day. I didn't really think about it much. But when I turned on the TV and was on the local news channel, her picture was brought up and chills came upon me like clouds during a rainstorm. Casting a feeling I've not quite felt before. I stared at the screen and gazed into the same eyes I was gazing at on the street. And for that minute and a half her face was on the screen I had felt like I have known her my entire life, when really I knew nothing. It jsut amazes methe power people can have on each other without even speaking. When you walk down the street or in the store, when you "fix a gaze" on someone, ever wonder what their thinking? Would you want to know? Just a little thing i thought i'd post to get it off my chest. -charles