(chris’s) blog

I’m at the Sacramento airport right now, waiting … which seems to be what everybody else is doing as well. Uncomfortably, people sit alone, while surrounded by other people who are also alone. I don’t know the history of our culture, but I’m curious as to when it became rude to prod a perfectly good stranger into conversation. Although here I am with a laptop in my eyes, an iPod in my ears, sitting saturated in my own controlled senses.

Still, the airport is a decent place to people watch. Even if you aren’t engaged with one another, you can still watch and wonder, not receiving conversation but still enlightened by presence alone.

Is that poetic? “Presence alone”?

I smile! Across are two strangers smiling in each other’s faces. One can feel a metaphysical connection emanating from them, inspiring the rest of us, if only minutely, to appreciate another. Or perhaps that is my own desire to connect, coming out from my eyes. Ironic then, that I should “talk” in blog than face to face.

When I look up they are gone, and that is the end.

Deviantart has this neat page of photos of people taking photos.