Not that many people (if any at all) have been keeping up with this - you may have noticed that there has been no activity. After a few attempts at guerilla kindfare to ignite this art project/social movement that ended in fruitlessness I became a little bit disillusioned.
However, this remains something that is very important to me. In my sister's blog I found this quote interesting:
"My poor friends were so lost on their first day into the city straight into Penn Station. Everybody is beelining towards their next leg of the journey and very much drawn inwards towards just getting home. They said that it was hard to even make eye contact to ask a question or find somebody moving slow enough so that they can ask. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of a city and can we start to slow ourselves down if only to pause and smile at a stranger?"
This was in New York City and it just goes to show that it remains a social epidemic that we are so self-involved and ruggedly individualistic that too often we forget to just smile at a stranger. Or when we do, we worry that they might think we're hitting on them or that they think we're odd or maybe we mistook them for somebody they new.
I don't want to live in a world where smiling at a stranger becomes a decreasingly common practice.
In light of this revelation, I might redesign this art project/social movement to be less about doing kind things for strangers and more about just becoming open to the world and a happier and eventually kinder person. Starting with smiling. At strangers.
However, given the fact that I still have a busy schedule to run, things might be slow. But this is something that I really want to do and really want it to succeed. So I'm going to keep trying, even if I happen to take month hiatuses in between!
I hope you keep tuned.
R
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