Strangers with or without Candy

What is it about the new that's so terrying to some? So inspriring to others? This will be a short post, I'm tired, but--i was asked today whether I often talked to people I didn't know. I found this to be a curious question. Mostly, because I was raised that way. My dad used to sit in the front seat of cabs and find out the life stories of the cabbies and i would sit in the back, fascinated but shy. Incapacitated, really. I wonder how people can live their days feeling so afraid of what they might find out there in the big bad world. I mean, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, no? where did that idea go? I can't imagine a day not wanting to meet someone new. Maybe they'd teach me something, maybe we could help each other--somehow.

To avoid contact with others is to be the supreme egoist--to think we are perfect as we are, not needing anything. Well, i need alot. I need alot of answers, aight? And i think thats a wonderful thing, to need the whole wide world, linking arms and histories , the longest genetic code in existence.

Where is Mr Rogers where I need him? You'll never know who you'll meet when you're walking down the street...