What's on their mind ?

Hi Alok I just love to watch people. With all their complexities, differences and connectivity they are such a beautiful thing to watch. There have been times when I had just got on to a bus without any thoughts. I would get down at the last destination and come back. Each time the ride had been full of experiences. I don't go on a ride anymore. The bleak colors of my life has taken over the collage of colors of the outside world,. If you get me there!! [u] A Snippet[/u] A mother struggling to caress the baby The baby still safe in her hands smiling The woman right at the corner with a long face May be someone has written her off or she did, who knows May be she's escaping the reality, that wasn't there Look there, the school buddies chirping as if there is no tomorrow The sparkle exudes a fun and mirth of future The lovey dovey couple held on to the back corner seats They have their world to explore Shy, timid, all blushes, she couldnt even hold his hands Then there is that tramp talking to himself Happy, lost, carefree and with much to say, no one to listen He doesn't need one even, learned the hard way The conductor singing his heart out To his love may be, smiling, pausing and happy And, that's there me sitting in my own corner in life Down yet happy with the inner solitude Sometimes its better to be this way....... Thanks.

I started a discussion many months ago - "Do you observe people at public places" and yours appears near to my discussion.....LOL! Yes, I do observe people at public places and specially at public transport. It is a great fun watching their facial expressions, while they are not noticing me. Some of them remain absoulately motionless while some of them cannot remain without moving or making some kind of gestures. Half of the women, I find, keep on making gestures - either they are touching their faces or setting their hair or their dress. They remain very consicious of themselves while travelling. I also find them obseving other women - what the other one is wearing and how the other one is behaving. Some of the youngeters (specially in Delhi Metro trains) remain to themselves. They simply plug on their headphones, the moment they step into the Metro train, and keep listening to music till their destination comes or keep themselves busy on their mobile phones talking and talking all the time. Good Post!

I have always been an avid people watcher myself so spend a lot of my time taking note of eveyone around me and watching their behaviours etc. And especially when you consider that I am a living in a foreign country right now and have been living in others for the last few years, I am always far more wary of my surroundings than what I would be back home. I stand out! So if anything, it is me that is noticed more than anybody else; so even if I DID wish to get lost in my own world it is not really possible because in some of the places I go I am seen as somewhat of a novelty! lol. But I am somewhat suspicious I guess of everyone around me and believe that I take in far more of my surroundings than a local person would when in a crowded place.

Hi there Alokn! That's a pretty interesting observation. I usually do that with people walking down a busy street. Some in a hurry to get somewhere, some just killing time, some looking for something, some observing like me. Usually, when I am on the ride to or from school, I sleep or think about whatever happened yesterday, or thinking about what will happen on that day, but most of the time, I think of my loved ones who are living far away from me because I miss them so much. That is when I'm alone. But usually, I go to school with my sisters and when that's the case, we will always be found chatting and giggling non-stop.

I find I feel a lot of fearfulness but not just on transport but in public in general and sometimes its a little strange how I can walk by a person and just feel a sense of frightfulness from them, fear of trust i imagine. I have trust issues myself but it varies day to day where some days I will reach out and make the effort to give smiles and small talk with strangers but other days I do not want to.

they are just a timpass, i dont watch them as i have my music and i hardly use public transport!