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. Most of the time, the lesson is: <i>life is fun and adventurous when lived with people while knowing each other to make meaningful connections.</i></p><h1 id="5dba">You don’t have to worry about the first impression.</h1><p id="46fc">There you go, nervosity eliminated. If it is the first date, then you have tried everything you could to impress your date. But what if you’re sharing a row with a stranger on your 3 hours long flight, your phone’s battery is dead, the food is expensive, and the seat is uncomfortable?</p><p id="0c8c">It doesn’t even matter what personality type you are: introvert, extrovert or anywhere in between, one thing you will agree that stranger probably don’t take any topic seriously when you talk to them.</p><p id="8a6e">It is a great time to drift your attention from something that has been bothering you for so long. Maybe you were having a bad day, and you want to forget about it!</p><p id="93aa">You can start talking about a book they are reading, what they are watching on Netflix, and soon you will realise your conversation has taken off in a completely different and funny direction!</p><h1 id="b304">You don’t have to fake it.</h1><p id="78de">Being yourself has never been easier. You are not going for a job interview. You are just enjoying by being you and trying to make a connection.</p><p id="36f6">Whatever strangers I’ve met the second time in my life, they are my friends now.</p><p id="d497">It is the attitude to respect everyone and occasionally see the world from their eyes. It is exciting to look at the world from a different angle for some time. It may even solve some of your pressing problems. It may spark an idea you never thought you had!</p><h1 id="

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b10c">If the situation favours, the moment will last forever.</h1><p id="b6fd">After the pre-final year of college, I did my internship, and one of the connections I established there is the guy ( not from my college but man! I wish he were!) who talks only to me out of all my college folks who spend time with him during the internship period. It is because of the way I introduced myself and how I continued to take life lightly if I want to enjoy the ebbs and flows of it.</p><p id="104f">We don’t get to talk too much on the phone. But, oh boy! when we do we just laugh 80% of the time about an incident during our internship. See! That is how strong the memory is.</p><p id="603a">Talking to strangers turns out to be fun most of the time, but when it doesn’t, you already had that zero expectation in your mind that it won’t turn out good. So, you won’t even think about that lousy interaction you had.</p><p id="106d">But if you did have a meaningful connection in the first meeting, you will make lasting connections for a lifetime with someone who is entirely different from you and gives crazy worldview to experiment with when stuck in some vexed situation!</p><p id="a1cf"><i>This blog belongs to a series of posts I am publishing in this 100-days streak. Today is day 61. Navigate to the end of <a href="https://readmedium.com/your-phone-is-a-distraction-only-if-you-want-it-to-be-3ea75dfb081b">article 22,</a> for the references from day 23 onwards. If you would like to read the ones before day 22, here is the <a href="https://readmedium.com/21-90-rule-combined-with-seinfeld-strategy-df9f7457dc11">first one</a> that documents them in the end.</i></p><p id="82c3"><i>~Sanjeev</i></p></article></body>

How Talking to Strangers Can Broaden Your Worldview

Or even make a lifelong connection!

If I compared myself with the version I was one year before, one thing I’ve improved in human interactions is talking to a stranger without scaring them off.

The more you do this stunt, the more you’ll realise the truth that humans crave meaningful connection, especially the in-person face-to-face kind. The second thing I realised is how I abstain texting nowadays and prefer to talk on video or voice call.

It took some practice to do so. Why should anyone even think of trying this? You don’t have to, but what if a person can provide you with a new view about life and make you believe there is a lot of goodness alive in this world. It is worth a shot, right?

Talking to people will silence our misery, it gives us a sense of support that someone out there might be going through the same phase we are, and if the second person turns out funny, he may completely change your perspective about life. You may forget about your sadness in the first place! Isn’t what we all want is to smack off the sad vibes?

Since I have friends and I do not get a chance to interact with strangers daily, it is a unique experience every time I discourse with a new person. Most of the time, the lesson is: life is fun and adventurous when lived with people while knowing each other to make meaningful connections.

You don’t have to worry about the first impression.

There you go, nervosity eliminated. If it is the first date, then you have tried everything you could to impress your date. But what if you’re sharing a row with a stranger on your 3 hours long flight, your phone’s battery is dead, the food is expensive, and the seat is uncomfortable?

It doesn’t even matter what personality type you are: introvert, extrovert or anywhere in between, one thing you will agree that stranger probably don’t take any topic seriously when you talk to them.

It is a great time to drift your attention from something that has been bothering you for so long. Maybe you were having a bad day, and you want to forget about it!

You can start talking about a book they are reading, what they are watching on Netflix, and soon you will realise your conversation has taken off in a completely different and funny direction!

You don’t have to fake it.

Being yourself has never been easier. You are not going for a job interview. You are just enjoying by being you and trying to make a connection.

Whatever strangers I’ve met the second time in my life, they are my friends now.

It is the attitude to respect everyone and occasionally see the world from their eyes. It is exciting to look at the world from a different angle for some time. It may even solve some of your pressing problems. It may spark an idea you never thought you had!

If the situation favours, the moment will last forever.

After the pre-final year of college, I did my internship, and one of the connections I established there is the guy ( not from my college but man! I wish he were!) who talks only to me out of all my college folks who spend time with him during the internship period. It is because of the way I introduced myself and how I continued to take life lightly if I want to enjoy the ebbs and flows of it.

We don’t get to talk too much on the phone. But, oh boy! when we do we just laugh 80% of the time about an incident during our internship. See! That is how strong the memory is.

Talking to strangers turns out to be fun most of the time, but when it doesn’t, you already had that zero expectation in your mind that it won’t turn out good. So, you won’t even think about that lousy interaction you had.

But if you did have a meaningful connection in the first meeting, you will make lasting connections for a lifetime with someone who is entirely different from you and gives crazy worldview to experiment with when stuck in some vexed situation!

This blog belongs to a series of posts I am publishing in this 100-days streak. Today is day 61. Navigate to the end of article 22, for the references from day 23 onwards. If you would like to read the ones before day 22, here is the first one that documents them in the end.

~Sanjeev