A pleasantly breezy Spring day. A young turkish man named Anwar, with his wine-red mustache and beady black eyes says hello to me as I step off the bus this afternoon. He is a friend of a friend. Tan with dark reddish black hair, Anwar stands all of five feet tall. Scrawny and sympathetic, Anwar is thoroughly likable, though far too reserved and shy to be good for enduring conversation. He has a brain behind those peering eyes. You can see it behind the screen of iris, mocking, peering, watching and recording.
"Hi, how's it going Anwar?" I respond. I hear him mumbling an answer as our paths diverge, I round the corner to enjoy the sunshine while he enters the student union.
I have been thinking about people again this afternoon. I like thinking about people. Each one is wholly unique - a true individual. My experience leads me to believe that all people are essentially the same... how can they appear so different? Cultural difference can account for some variations, but even people within the same culture are unique enough to be interesting - at least the larger majority are, or at least they are to me. I think this perceived uniqueness is somewhat of an illusion though. We hardly ever focus on the aspects of the whole person, instead focusing on the qualities of a person - the essence or the few traits that make them different from the rest of the crowd... these differences are dynamic over time so it is also possible for a person who once stood out in a crowd to blend in again without ever having changed. But when taken as a whole... the general population is more or less the same. We eat, we drink, we sleep, we communicate under the guidance of our culture's predominate protocols... and so on... but generally speaking the patterns are the same; born, live, die....
And here I thought the beauty of RSS was that you didn't have to
clutter your inbox :(
