Souls

Have you ever recognized someone that you don't "know"????

I LOVE people watching. Who doesn't, right? It's so fulfilling to me. I think it's fun to sit and try to "read" people. I always wonder if I'm "right" or how far off I am.

Anyway, we were at the Back To The 50's carshow Sat night- I LOVE this place. It holds SO many childhood memories for me. I love it with everything in me. It was UBER busy too, which is fun- LOTS of cars, LOTS of people...lots of rockin FOOD...



So there was this girl who was sitting across from us. She had to be at least 50 feet away, and there were 2 rows of cars between us. I couldn't stop looking at her. She had longish reddish/brown hair. When I first saw her, I was just trying to read her, and she felt a lot like ME. The energy around her was light and fun. Again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she was a raging bitch? Who knows. But I couldn't stop looking at her. I felt like a recognized her. I really wanted to go find out if I actually knew her or recognized something else about her.



I didn't do it. I rarely do when that happens. It happens with girls, boys, young, old, and usually I don't go say hello.



I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that so many people seem to recognize me, too. I can't tell you how many people tell me that I look so familiar and that they think they know me from somewhere.



Later Sat night, Cullen and I were talking about the car show, and how much fun it is, and how much I love it (haven't been in years because of the kids), and what it means to him to go there, what THAT feels like.

I said "There was a girl..."



that's it. He knew EXACTLY who I was talking about. He said she was looking at us just as much as I/we were looking at her. That every time he looked at her, she was looking at us. I said "DAMMIT! Should have went and met her."

Then I said "That's what I should do. I should commit to meeting every person that I recognize *that* way..." and Cullen...hahahha...the sound that came out of him! "OH, YES! Great, a whole new slew of best friends, that's just what you need to do, yes, we should meet everyone we feel *that* was about..." only it was FUNNY.


But why DON'T we? I'm sure sitting on the el, you get your fair share of people watching in, and sometimes you probably see someone and something resonates inside of you. Or just ANYONE anywhere! Running a marathon....people everywhere...why don't we stop to say hi? Walking down the hallway, passing people, who look the other way...we just don't reach out, in general. I wonder what we're missing out on.