Stranger #4

Stranger #4-

First and foremost, please excuse the quality of this picture. I'm an idiot, and was in a huge rush this morning to get to class. As I go to take this ladies picture- whoops no SD card in my camera. A true FML moment.  I was going to go all the way home from school, and come back later but what would be the point in that? Today, we have the luxury of cameras on our phone. Although not the best quality, it works, and this is Kat.

On Thursdays, I'm on campus all day as if I'm at a full-time job (unfortunately not getting paid) so a part of the population of strangers in my blog, of course, are going to be students/faculty who are affliated with Arcadia in some type of way. Even so, Arcadias student base is extremely entertaining, meaning very diverse. This is what I love about Arcadia. Walking around campus can be easily compared to walking on South Street, without the sale of alcoholic beverages. Womp womp.

Meet Kat Wagner. Kats a metalsmith (which is awesome to say the least) and an art-ed major. Artists always have, and always will fascinate me no matter what their concentration may be. Also what fascinates me is that when you look at someone, you envision what they may say to you about themselves. I have to admit, I'm always freaking wrong. This is why you can NEVER judge a book by its cover. By looking at Kat without talking to her, you would never know that she overcame struggles in her youth when her brother committed suicide. He chose to take his life when he was 23, and she was 13. This is all Kat chose to tell me, and I was dying to know more. Like I said in my previous blog, I dont want to keep pushing at something but its stories like this that I wish people would go more in depth about.

So many people I talk to are extremely relatable in one way or another. Its crazy. No I didnt have a brother who committed suicide, but I did have a friend who committed suicide that I used to work with. It's hard to understand why people take their own life. Some may find it selfish, but I find it to be very sad. It could be that these people feel that they have no one to talk to, they dont want to talk to anyone because they are afraid to get criticized, or simply they arent comfortable enough expressing their darkest moments. It could be so many reasons, but feeling in such a way where you have to take your own life is really sad to me. This is a subject that anyone could go on and on about but since I only have 10 more minutes until my next class, I'm shutting myself up.

Although Kat didnt really tell me much, I did meet another face today, and NO rejections. Not only did I go up and introduce myself to Kat, but after I interviewed her, I saw her again around campus, and she said hi! I can honest to god say that  if I didnt introduce myself, we probably wouldnt have even said hi to one another or maybe not even made eye contact.  This is my goal. I'm not looking for someones whole life story. If my purpose was to get someones biography, I wouldve deleted Kats picture in search of another stranger. I refuse to do that. If someone gives me a sentence, its getting posted on this blog. It may not be interesting to all, but it is what it is.

Now, if one of you fine folks could bring me lunch to school since I used my 45 minute break in search of a stranger, and writing this blog, that would be freakin awesome. If you cant bring me a hotpocket, just keep following my project :) I may possibly update this thing at a later time with more of what I have in my brain, but for now, have a great day, and say HI to someone! (a stranger that is!)

I'm officially late for class.
oops.