Welcome!
If you’re reading this, it means at some point
in the immediate past or present, you’ve been
in a public place with someone who has
directed you here. You probably don’t know
this person, but they were thinking about you
and decided to let you know that.
We spend so much of our lives around other
people, at work and in coffee shops and
restaurants and libraries and other public places,
yet most of us feel increasingly isolated and
unable to reach out and connect.
Look around you — how many people around
you are alone in what they’re doing? How many
people have earphones on, or are on their
cell phones, or hunched over their computers,
completely oblivious to everything else around
them — oblivious to the fact that right now,
you are thinking about them as you read this?
And don’t forget, the only reason you’re here is
because someone else was thinking about you.
So see — we do have the ability to connect with
people and just need to be reminded of it.
Here’s how you can participate: next time
you’re in a public place and you want to
make a connection with someone, even if
they seem too busy to interrupt, tell them
about us. How? Write down the web address
HelloStranger.org on a napkin or business
card or any other scrap of paper you can find.
Then you can place it next to someone’s
laptop or their cup of coffee or cold glass of
beer. You can also slip it secretly into their
backpack or pocket or even their hand.
They might discover it immediately,
or at some future point in time.
Hopefully they’ll be just as happy as
you were to find this little surprise.
Wishing you happy trails,
The Hello Stranger
