Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.
There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.
It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.
People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.
Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.
More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.
Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.
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