Today, I went to one of my grandson’s eye doctor with his mother and my wife. After an hour of waiting, the doctor finally took back my grandson and his mother and my wife went with them. I stayed in the waiting room. I like to people watch. When I take my wife to the store and I know she isn’t going to be inside long, I’ll stay out in the car and wait on her. And I watch people. No matter where I go.

It is very interesting. When I see a child acting up, it is painful to watch the parent because you know that parent wants to give that child a whooping and the child knows it cannot get spanked becuase their parent will get in trouble. I think to myself that child is so lucky it was not rasied in my time. You know, we got that whooping, no matter where we are at. In public and crying and your mom or dad would tell you to quit crying because you are embarrassing youself and/or if you don’t stop crying you get another whooping. We grew up pretty good. One thing we could as a kid was the ability to talk to strangers. People we didn’t know, we can talk to them. Now a stranger, back then, was identified as someone you were not related to and never met before. If a person you seen walking down the street you never met before but is related to, that person was not a stranger.

Over the years, it became impossible to talk to strangers. There were lot of perverts that preyed on little kids, perverts that preyed on the elderly. Someone was always trying to take advantage of someone somehow someway. Getting to know someone was difficult. They only way you can get to know someone in a “safe” enviornment was the place of work. Sometimes that didn’t work too well.

What I am talking about is walking up to someone, anywhere, without no reason, just to say hi and see if that person responds. Thats what i did today. While I was waiting for the doctor visit to end, I walked up to two female individuals that were left in the waiting room. The secretaries had gone for the day and these two individuals were waiting for the last part of their doctors visit. We were talking like we knew each other. Then my wife and daughter and grandson came out into the waiting room and seen us talking. We all said our goodbyes and left.

I always think and wonder why we are as we are when we grow up. It comes down to our enviornment. If we grow up living a certain way, we will do the same as we grow older. If we grow up being taught to hate a certain race, ethinticity, group, music, sport, etc, we will do the same as we grow older. It seems that when we get to a certain age, we stop trying to learn something new, unless our job requires it or need to to find another job. I seen the problems when I was a child, but I did not walk in the footsteps of others. I was always taught to make my own and thats what i did. To me, all thats what is wrong in the world is the same thing that goes wrong in a marriage. Somewhere along the line, we just stopped talking. Will talking to strangers help the world out? Yes, in time. But there is always going to be someone who will oppose anything good.

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