@GivingVoice
Perspectives on how we use our voice to amplify ideas and things that matter. Also @dbpardes for direct messages
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:46
Session 29: the opportunity of talking to strangers
But I had the chance to talk to Mahoney Samuels, who was an Olympic champion, basically, for USC. He was a triple jumper, they call it, and he had just had a hip replacement, and he was 83 years old. He is 83 years old. And we spoke for like a half an hour. It was a really long line, and it was such a delightful connection. And I learned so much about his philosophy on physical therapy
Mahima Mamgain
@MM007 · 1:15
Because personally, I think I never overlook a meeting with stranger because it always holds a divine message, especially when someone is at their lives crossroads. So these chance meetings are always divine turn towards our actual realities in life. So yes, they really form very beautiful memories and shape our identity as well. Cheers
Carly D
@Astroality · 3:20
I mean, we talked about how he doesn't get out much and the grocery store is like, one of his things, right? And he was laughing because I was telling him how I literally disdain going to the grocery store and that I don't hardly ever do it. And he just delighted me on so many levels, I can't even explain it to you properly or give it adequate words. But it was beautiful, and this made me think of that
Theo Seibold
@itsTOW · 4:54
Hey, it's theo. Thank you so much for posting this. And this is such a great swell because I think this kind of takes us back to a time we need to get back to, that I don't think we really embrace, which is being able to just talk to each other. And it doesn't necessarily mean we have to get into these grand conversations. Those are nice when they happen and you meet certain people, but you get the chance to actually interface and connect
Kwa NateKo
@kwa · 1:36
If you're waiting for some kind of transportation or of some kind in a terminal or sitting next to each other for whatever for a little bit of period of time, you can talk about I'm not going to say very intimate stuff, but stuff you may not even talk to your people you see every day about. Because if you're just strangers passing by, there's kind of a low risk of how this will affect me socially in my everyday life
YN Beshier
@NewWordOrder · 2:23
But I love meeting people simply because me talking to my family and my friends is great. But we always talk about most of the time, we talk about the same things. If we talk about something new every now and then, we may talk about something new event or whatever. But when I talk to people that I don't know, I'm always learning something that I didn't know or I'm always hearing, like, a fascinating story
Well, having said that, let me just quickly share one particular format of a meetup which was arranged by one of a friend, and he had made a strict rule that in the beginning nobody introduces anybody, so there is not going to be any small talk. So practically I just hopped in a cafe where the meet was arranged in a very informal setting, in a casual way, and there we were not supposed to introduce to each other about our backgrounds, just the name. That's it