I’m sitting in one of the student commons around campus today, waiting for my next class. Along with browsing Digg.com, I’m also just gazing around randomly. This reminds me of the fun times I’ve had at Cedar Point or the Toledo Zoo where Jim and I would just sit on a park bench and talk while watching all of the people around us interact. It’s a great, and mostly underrated, form of entertainment.
My favorite moment for this session is seeing a georgous woman across the room. She’s actually a friend of some of my friends and I recognize her from being in different plays around campus. Watching her interact with people across the room, though, I wonder if she’s acting right now. I, of course, am not talking about acting in the professional sense, rather the way that we (as people) act to portray the social roles that we’ve been placed into. I’m sure we all do it. I know that there are many times in my life that I do something because its what I feel is apropriate for the role at that perticular time. I can remember a few specific times when I even felt like I needed to say something “out of character” (if you can remember the old days of MUDing or being a part of a live RPG, D&D Style).
To wrap this all up in some kind of meaningful way, I guess I’m just facinated by human thought and even more so on sociology. People watching just enables me to hobby these fields of thought.