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On The Subway Today |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore 
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It stuck me as queer that people would be more engrossed in everything else- reading the papers, playing their Game Boys, typing out SMS messages on their handphones, looking dully at their laps than in the people around them i wondered Have we gone numb in this aggressive competitive world so much so that our fellow man no longer interests us? |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
No one seems to want to take an interest... except here...they'd rather rot in the spaces of their own mind....very pointed question you've written here...I enjoyed the thought... ethome |
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Dennis L. White Senior Member
since 2000-02-17
Posts 1463Michigan, U.S.A. |
Kaile, You have witnessed the new isolationism in this day of mass communication, what a parodox! Keen eye my friend! Dennis :^) Moonbeams radiate When the veiling cloud has passed Playful shadows dance Dennis L. White :^) |
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kcsgrandma Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1522Presque Isle, ME |
Kaile, perhaps it is not so much that people are uninterested as that they are afraid. It is safer to be isolated, so people cannot touch you and hurt you. Just a thought. To love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables Marilyn |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Well..you've just echoed my thoughts exactly. Actually - I have a theory about this... I call it 'Busworld safety' - in your case it would be 'Subway safety'... kcsgrandma summed it up. It's fear and isolation. People pocket themselves away on the bus...no one can talk too loud...or look at other people...and you certainly don't want to infringe on that... help if you do! Glares...and sniffs - almost as if you are harrassing them... It's solely a societal reaction to the pressures and expectations that socialise us. And very interesting to watch... Good poem - I like it...  K |
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Poeminister Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862Regina SK; Canada |
Very true, its hard to know what people are thinking. Just want to talk sometimes but people are so unoutward, cocooned in their habits and routines..its quite strange, people never used to be as much like that i don't think, but more and more you find people so shelled up when their out in the public atmosphere...enjoyed this.. take care Poeminister< !signature--> "...no single sound too rude upon thy slumber shall intrude, Our thoughts, our souls- O God above! In every deed shall mingle, love." -Poe [This message has been edited by Poeminister (edited 12-03-2000).] |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
As a people loving people watcher, I more than appreciated this...and I too, talk to anybody and everybody...sure it gets me in a bind sometimes, but I have also made many many friends!!! Nice work and thought provoking! |
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Mon Cherie
since 2001-10-31
Posts 922Land of Never-ending Summers |
This is quite true. People just seem to move around in a mad dash for time. But don't you know that staring is rude? When I take the subway, and I've nothing to keep me occupied, I'll look outside, or at the reflection on the glass. Then, I could look at people, without actually staring at them  Wicked, aren't I? hehe_,,,^.^,,,_ |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
interestingly true |
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