The other day when I was sat on the train to work I was thinking how odd it is that people can be in such a small space, packed together, and do their best to ignore everyone in that space. Hide behind a news paper, listen to music, look outside, inspecting your bag, anything will do. Now why is that?
Is it as simple as just not wanting to have strangers in your personal bubble? Or is there more to it?
For example, we do not sit close to these strangers out of free choice. In fact, if we had choice we want to public transport to be at our disposal only. Put your feet up, read the paper, scratch your behind without anyone seeing it and so on.
We can state that being near to strangers discomforts us. We try not to be there. Is it because we do not trust these strangers? Are we hostile to everything that is unknown? Do we not know how to deal with strangers? Or as the Dutch say "wat de boer niet kent, dat eet hij niet". These coming weeks I will have a little experiment on the train. I will be very open towards the strangers, I will try and open a conversation. Can one person make the difference? To be continued.
Is it as simple as just not wanting to have strangers in your personal bubble? Or is there more to it?
For example, we do not sit close to these strangers out of free choice. In fact, if we had choice we want to public transport to be at our disposal only. Put your feet up, read the paper, scratch your behind without anyone seeing it and so on.
We can state that being near to strangers discomforts us. We try not to be there. Is it because we do not trust these strangers? Are we hostile to everything that is unknown? Do we not know how to deal with strangers? Or as the Dutch say "wat de boer niet kent, dat eet hij niet". These coming weeks I will have a little experiment on the train. I will be very open towards the strangers, I will try and open a conversation. Can one person make the difference? To be continued.
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