"What's your story?"

yesterday i was at simone's getting coffee with friends yesterday.

there was an older man sitting at a table diagonal to ours, and sitting on the table in front of an empty chair as he perused the newspaper was this:

i really wanted to just ask him what his story was.

to know what he'd done in his life, and what that flag meant to him.

i feel that with a lot of people. i guess its a part of my curiosity, but there's some people, and you can just look at them and think to yourself, that person has a story to tell. like the elderly and super-fit woman who comes to swim at my work, or the quiet man who swims every morning that never smiles - i want to know about their lives. it just interests me to hear what other people have experienced, while i feel i have experienced so little.

i'm a people watcher. but i also want to listen. i want to hear about the meaningful things people have done in their lives, at least until i can DO something or be apart of something of the likes myself.