Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Do you ever wonder

I had an odd thought today as I was doing the Mom taxi / driving to work thing this morning. Do you ever wonder about those people that are in your life that you "know" but you do not "truly" know. Here is what I mean: Each and every day we are in contact with people, the fellow who pumps your gas, the lady you see walking her dog every day, people crossing the street, the barrista at Starbucks that makes your coffee in the morning. People who we see and are familiar but we do not know their name basically anything about them. People that are part of our lives in a peripheral sort of way, but part of our lives none the less.

I remember reading a story after 9/11 about how New Yorkers felt as their city slowly returned to "normal" how relieved they were to see these people start to re-appear in their regular places. The comfort and security that represented. The knowing that not everything had changed, was like a familiar blanket on a cold day.

There is the one man who we see almost every day after school, jogging home with his daughter, she is about 8 and always has her heavy back pack - I always think 2 things, wow what a work out, and why not carry her back pack for her every once in a while. Well this morning I saw him and he was limping... I wondered what had happened to cause the injury - then after school today I saw the little girl walking with another grown up after school. I wondered if they recognize my van going by each day as something familiar - wondered what people see. Or if I am just odd in my recognition - I think I will scrapbook about that tonight. I have some great pictures of my neighbourhood that will work. How about you do you ever wonder about such odd things or am I just a little odd.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I love this, Di - I'm definitely the same way. Sometimes I just wonder about the people sitting in traffic beside me...where are they going? What is their story? It's amazing how we get so wrapped up in our little bubble of a world and we think that that IS the world, when really there's all these millions or billions of other stories running parallel to ours.