Stranger Danger

Something half interesting has been irking me over past few days.

Basically the idea that a stranger can teach and tell you more about yourself than anyone you have ever known has ever told you in recent times. 

You know how you get those times where you're just feeling bankrupt and void? Pieces don't fit, ends dont meet etc. Yeah pretty much those times where you ask old questions that you want new answers to. And you stay in that mode till you get over it, or until youve got what you were looking for through one way or the other. 

So anyway, I was in one of those. I was just feeling like total shit. Happens right? And through a circumstance I can't quite be bothered to explain, happened to meet a total stranger. So me being me, I spoke to them and spilt guts. They were pretty cool about it, and we spoke and what not. So that doesn't happen often.

But what happened next kinda freaked me out.

This person went on to make a complete observation about me. And told me everything about myself that I suppose already knew, but like I said, when you're in the pits you just don't know things and need some reassurance or new discovery. 

And, it wasn't just six-shooting in the way that you mention the odd trait so that it happens to coincide with yours. No. I'm talkin about a complete "This is what you are like. This is why you are like that. This is what you fear will happen. This is why you fear it." kind of stuff. 

Amused and completely struck at the same time. 

Oddly enough I loved every bit of it. I suppose it's not everyday that strangers can read all over you like a book. I don't consider myself to be a very predictable person and am known to disguise my real feelings pretty well. But, this was just on another level.

As with everything cool that happens. It was short lived, I suppose. But I suppose it just opens your mind? Well, it opened mine anyway. How all of a sudden everything that you turn to, or know, or want to know is completely silent. Yet out of the quagmire of things that don't make sense, someone makes clockwork out of you and you didn't even ask for it. Providence has a funny way of solving things.