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I'm not doing this project to necessarily make new longterm friends, or go have a drink with these people. Nor is it to pass any judgements on ones life. My goal is to simply meet interesting, and maybe not so interesting strangers who I wouldve never taken the time to talk to otherwise. One that may differ, or perhaps relate to my own life. So many times, you walk past someone, and they wont even raise their head in the slightest to say hello. I'll never understand why. The challenge to myself is not only to surpass that simple hello with one person a day, but to convince them to look into my lens and tell me something about themselves. My name is Amanda Surkin, and this is my journey of meeting 100 new faces. Take the time to listen, you may learn something :)

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Stranger #9


Stranger #9-
Not only did I meet another face today (and yes another dog too) but I'm really happy, because for the first time, well, my fiance actually read my blog. Some of you may be thinking, why hasnt he read it until now? Like some others, he wasnt too keen on the whole idea (even though he does think it is creative.) He was and still is worried about the safety cautions that could come from doing this type of project. This is why he never took interest in reading it. Although it made me a little sad at first, because he typically supports every single thing that I do, I cant blame him, or anyone else for worrying. In all reality, dont we take a chance just walking down a street everyday though? Even when you get in a car, so many things are liable to happen. If I worried about all of this stuff, I would stay in my house like a hermit everyday, and even today, that could be a not so safe place. I will not let that "risk", or the lack of support that I may have stop me from doing what I want. It's funny because I get overwhelming amounts of positive feedback (which always makes me smile), and people that are excited to read my blog each and every day (which I thank you if you are one of those people.) Then, I receive feedback from others saying that this is dumb because of what could happen to me, but it's those same people who havent taken out the time to read or witness the awesome individuals that I'm getting a chance to meet every day.

I, like anyone else do some clumsy and dumb shit sometimes. I'm human, but I'm not unintelligent. I know and understand that every time I approach someone, I'm taking a risk. I'm ok with this. I take risks all of the time. A man named Fredrick B. Wilcox once said, "Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." It's the god honest truth.

Meet Ida. Ida has been a preschool teacher for 3 years, and is also a Sunday school teacher at Resso. She has one son, and is married. Ida started off by telling me that she has traveled to Italy twice and  can basically speak Italian fluently. She has family in Italy and stated that she lost a lot of her family there during World War II.   Furthermore, Ida said that her husband could possibly be related to John Wilks Booth because they share the same last name. Well, if ya dont know who he is, he is a gutsy actor who killed Abraham Lincoln!

Ida also shared her favorite quote with me- "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"- John Lennon
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