I think most of us deal with people who look fairly much like ourselves on a daily basis. And basically everyone is polite. And everyone is civil. But what is going on behind that façade.
Just take a grocery store - there may be fifty customers there - or more or less. Do you ever stop to think - that person maybe just got a raise, that one may just have been fired: that person may have just gone through a death, a domestic dispute, an accident; that person may be newly married, just engaged, just gone through a break-up - all kinds of human drama has to be swirling between us as we choose our Cheerios and broccoli! But we disguise it all and go our quiet way.
I'm not saying we should revert to our two-year-old selves and scream, stomp, kick, laugh, dance, sing, yell at will.... but wouldn't we come to a better understanding of the world at large if we could somehow glimpse who really lives in our neighborhood.
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