The Quiet Stranger

There is always someone to fulfill every archetype concerning humans. Everyone knows a doctor, a janitor, a friendly neighbor, a concerned mother, a hockey dad, and a quiet stranger. Somehow that stranger, even though we know them, remains a stranger. They never say too much, just enough to interact with us. The "us" is our world and they, well they are lost in their own world, a world where they are totally unknown to us. That's where our imaginations take over to create a life for them to live. Maybe they have family, with kids they play with, with parties at friends houses. Maybe they have a job that they love, and a favorite coffee shop where they meet their best friends to talk. Maybe they love sunsets and actually do enjoy long walks. Maybe they have a house and a yard with big trees that they climb up to feel young again. Maybe they have mentors who are older and greyer then themselves who they ask the tough questions about life, love, and happiness. They might even have a life partner who is their closest friend and lover, who they will spend the rest of their lives with. How much of this will we, as outsiders or their world, discover as true in their lives? Probably not very much, and that may be exactly what keeps the quiet stranger in a mysterious light. If we knew all that about them, they would become real to us, they would become part of our world as we would be a part of theirs. So enjoy the quiet strangers, enjoy how your imagination creates an ideal for their lives, just remember that the real people, the ones in your world, are the ones you should be investing your time and energy into, so that hopefully their lives grow closer to the ideal.