"Hello!" , "How do you do?" , "Good morning!?!" , or a simple smile and a nod of a hat are a few of the kindlier greetings that we use in our everyday life that in a world full of cruelty and strangers has started to lose its value. A friendly greeting has become more of a chore than a simple expression of one’s acknowledgment of another person’s existence in humanity. We tend to say hello out of routine then genuine care of how someone actually is doing, feeling, or being. In a simple tone of a greeting you can create a friend for life or a bitter nemesis, become somebodies confidant or bodyguard, make a person feel like they belong or outkasted, disarm a hostile situation or fuel one. Behind a greeting one holds a power of responsibility for the person they greeted into their realm of life and vice versa. What you do after a hello, either for good or ill intent is a true test of one’s character and respect towards another human being.
I’m the kind of person that has never met a stranger, at least no one stranger than myself. As much as I would hate to admit it, this is a blessing and a curse rolled up in a paradoxical cocoon of preposterous occurrences in my life. Never before has this epiphany ever become more so well manifested in events until now and forever.
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