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For those of you who like me seem to spend most of your week on transit you will know what it is to partake in 'people watching'. Sometimes I'm really struck by the amount of people who we cross paths with on a daily basis. We have no idea what kind of lives they lead and what kind of stories their lives consist of. Transit commutes seem so mechanical and inhumane. During peak hours I honestly feel like we are being herded around like cattle. But once in a while you connect with a passer-by, usually in simple ways but it's always so surprising and powerful. It reminds you that we cross paths with real people everyday. I wrote this on a ride home almost a year ago: I saw a young woman sitting and talking to a young man on the bus. She had a little girl on her lap and a little boy sitting by her. The little boy gazed at the man as he spoke and grew more comfortable around him. The boy soon asked the man if he could sit on his lap and the man said, "No you...

**This is a post I wrote many months back but held onto. I've decided to let it loose.** In my few years on earth so far I have encountered much talk of the struggle that humanity faces with loneliness. I'm quite intrigued by this struggle especially when it is paired with the statement that humans are meant to be social beings. Here are thoughts on loneliness by some relatively famous people: “We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” -Orson Welles (Filmmaker) “Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.” - Joseph Conrad (Writer) “The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the ce...