For whatever reason many strangers feel very comfortable talking to me. Whether it be in a line at the bank, maybe it is when we are both waiting for a table at a local restaurant, it happened once while purchasing auto insurance, the woman who was handling my paperwork just opened up about a death of a loved one and she told me that she felt like I was so easy to talk to and expressed all her troubles and heartache to me. I haven't quite figured it out as of yet. But it seems after an initial comment for whatever their reasoning, the conversation is usually continued. If the conversation gets personal they tell me things they have never told anyone before or tell me that they feel like they can talk to me like they have known me all their lives. I seem to have a very convivial way with my personality. A likeability, maybe it's a friendly voice, maybe it's what I say, or the way I say it.

While I know I can be very passionate to others; this even happened to me at my job once with a parent of a child at the school were I was employed, she came into my office to express how she was drawn to talk to me and offer some words of faith and encouragement to me.

While these situations above do not happen every day. They have happened enough to know that I have a certain aroma to my personality that allows strangers to completely open up and feel comfortable and good in being able to so.

I have had this happen in situations where no one is talking. Where I have been drawn to say something while in a place of un-comfortableness for others, where it's not uncomfortable for me. Maybe it was in a room that consisted of people of a minority group, or it was someone you wouldn't normally speak to, because they looked mean or you wouldn't think that this person would speak back to you, or It could be that it was the way they were dressed etc. Well, I realize that these people, are just people, just like you and me. And once I said something to one of the strangers in this group. To everyone's surprise; these people spoke back or had something to say or maybe they just smiled. Anyway, it broke the ice and made the situation more comfortable for everyone. And it even made others start carrying on conversations of their own with other strangers.

Many years ago I began to realize that I had different thoughts about strangers, but I never told them what I was thinking, so I told myself, what's the harm in letting these people know what I am thinking.

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