Confronting strangers
A few centuries ago, we didn't confront many “strangers” on a daily basis.
Today, the bulk of them are strangers to us.
Initially, I was persuaded to look at “how I confront a stranger”.... Later, as a grownup I happened to also add “how might he_be_confronting me” 😜
Nothing worthwhile to talk about me😓🙏( how much i evolved into my own tools and techniques of how i confront)
The first thought of ours( we, I mean 🙏) might be “who is he?”( Profile & biodata related).
Next thought, in most cases would be “how best am I going to ‘defend’ myself from him”( as a society, are we not nurturing mutual mistrust? 😜)
The costly_joke is, an Airhostess keeps her job only by forcing_herself to flash a plastic _smile on all the strangers boarding a plane. Needless to add, she needs to ‘relax’ first, to defuse the tension built-up by 300+ stubborn smiles, in her uniform 😭🙏
Centuries ago that ‘next thought’, ( owing to the trust levels in those days) might have been “how do I become receptive to any ‘possible’ value addition from him/her?”
If the first thought had said “he is so_and_so, and it's my duty to offer some kind of Value addition to him” then, that other fellow too adjusts oneself accordingly 🙏
I leave it to the readers to use their sense_of Discrimination and visualise the ‘related’ consequences and its ramifications caused due to the repetitive thought processes 🙏( i don't wish to drag the length of this blog too much)
The_joke.
Highly evolved persons( call them as “enlightened” fellows , if you wish🙏), avoid mutual confrontation, unless their joint effort is indispensable, to “add value” to any other/s in the vicinity 🙏.
These guys OBVIATE that ‘first’ thought itself 😜 ( “Who is this?”). They ‘know' merely by looking at the other, everything that is worth_knowing 🙏, and that's what enlightenment is also_about 🤣
Trustedly yours,
psn( 1 June, 2026)
Post Script: my blogs usually makes/renders a reader to become “defensive” 😭… I can't help it. 🙏
Manufacturing defect in me 🙏 😜
Any value addition is purely incidental ( etc etc…..like the disclaimer issued by producers of TV serials/ soap_opera)
