Are we becomming disconnected as a culture? I watch as hundreds of people scurry to class, most of them with their iPods on or talking on their cellphones. People no longer talk to each other, especially to strangers. I notice this as someone who is guilty of it myself. How many times have I sat on the bus beside someone with my headphones and completely ignored the person. Oddly enough, my first year at PSU I met a kid, who I never learned his name, at the bus stop. We must have had class in the same building and waited everyday for the bus after class. We would talk for a good twenty minutes and it was something I honestly enjoyed. It would be nice to see more people be friendly and just say hello to the random people beside you, trust me, it cannot hurt. I want everyone to talk to a random person this week, whether it be on the bus, in class, walking on campus/in town, or even in line at the ATM machine.
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I don’t know about State College, but I find that headphones or cell phones are a godsend in Pittsburgh. I don’t want to have to talk to some shaggy, homeless, toothless guy wearing shorts and a trenchcoat and nothing else while I’m waiting for my bus…I prefer to be disconnected to people of his kind.
Yeah people of that kind, but what about all the other people wearing headphones?
I talk to random people on the train all the time, they tend to lok at me a little weird at first though.