It has become such a rare treat to encounter a stranger willing to make eye contact, or better still, to start a conversation. I’m struck by it each time it happens.
Where did our sense of wonder go?
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I noticed in Germany people are way more open to talk to strangers than in Chile. Not sure where you are but it's certainly vastly different between countries.
Certainly, it does. Here in the US, it also varies by region, though the overall trend seems to be downward.
I think this is due to lower trust and also in part due to technology allowing us to connect with people elsewhere in every instance so we constantly have "better" things to do than to talk to that stranger next to us.
But talking to the people around us would ground us in reality instead of living in some abstract space where in our case, Bitcoin matters more than the real life stuff next door.
Well said. I’m grateful that Bitcoin has connected me even more deeply to so many quality people locally and around the world.
I do this with strangers all the time!
Talking to people is a lot of effort. It takes a lot out of me so I have to be choosy with what conversations I'm willing to start.
I learned a while ago the hard way it takes 10 times the effort to un-know someone as it does to get to know them and let them in your life, if you find after many weeks they are not good people under the surface.
After having known since pretty toxic people in the past few years, is not just my introversion that makes me averse to getting to know people too quick for this reason exactly. A foot in the door is hard to remove.
Just imagine future generations