It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.
I've never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office.
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.