April 19, 2009
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What gives?
I consider myself to be a pretty chatty and friendly person who likes to talk to strangers. I never refuse the chance to talk to someone in the grocery store or coffee line. To me it seems natural and sort of just decent and respectful. Maybe it comes from how I was raised. It still amazes me the difference in level of welcoming and/or chatty people from place to place I have lived and traveled. The differences I have experienced are huge. I am currently in a place where neighbors talk to each other, people genuinely smile and say hello, and the majority of everyone is just plain nice. I really love that and feel very lucky.
So here’s my question; Why such the difference from one place to the next? Can someone enlighten me? Is it the weather? Big city compared to smaller city? North to south- east to west? Being from the lovely and ever frozen New England, now living in the south- I have said at times that perhaps it’s too damn cold in the north for anyone to be chatty or lingering. It sort of makes sense, but I know plenty of lovely sweet Northerners and after all, that’s where I came from and like I said, I’m the chatting kind.
Either way, I have to say it’s such a pleasant surprise in an ever seemingly falling apart world to be in a place that people just greet and talk to each other with no motive other than to do just that.
Gotta run. Someone I have never met before just asked me to join the morning coffee talk…
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