It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
I've never met anyone normal.
When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.
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