Strangers

I don't know about you but I am the type of person who falls in love with strangers all the time. Now the love that I am talking about is the kind you have over the way someone's face scrunches up when the bus driver takes a sharp turn, or the way someone is engrossed in a book that you already know the ending too, or simply someone who is smiling at every person they walk by as if they have known them for years. The love I am talking about is the kind that you think about when you are laying in bed at night and thinking about all of the faces that you passed through the day and that one face that stuck out. The kind of love that you are bound to forget the moment you step off the bus or out of the coffee shop but you still fall into it for the simple pleasure of loving someone. It's odd, I know, but it's also refreshing, the stranger may never even know about the way you felt and the things you would do to see the writing in their journal because the concentration they had whilst writing in their journal was the most mesmerizing thing in the world. 

What's even better is when you see a stranger again, usually, this happens at a coffee shop that both of you frequent or a bus route that you share with them, sometimes they may smile and nod at you in recognition and sometimes they may not even give you a second glance, but you clearly remember falling in love with the way their eyes close when the warmth of the sun embraces them. Your heart may even skip a beat and you consider walking over to them and asking them if they enjoyed the book they were reading the last time you saw them, you consider this for a brief moment and then reality hits you like a cold blast of air conditioning and you realize that going up to them may shatter your expectations of who they may be, so you choose otherwise and remain superglued to your seat.

I truly enjoy falling in love with strangers around me, it's like the risk-free trial of love in which you know your heart can never be broken. It's better than one-sided love since that will always lead to your heart being crushed by a mountain the size of Vesuvius. So I recommend falling in love with strangers cause it's a 10/10 experience and you aren't left with a crippling fear of intimacy and trust issues.

Cheers :)