Oh, the People You'll Meet

The telecom supervisor that told me about how much more he used to make as a contractor, the 22-year-old that never turns off cruise control so driving is more like a video game, the male feminist and agnostic Columbia law student living in Chinatown, raised by Southern Baptists in Utah, the street vendor who lengthened that necklace for me, on the spot, the airplane repair project controller from Carson City, participating in the AIDS Walk with Team Gap with her teenage daughter that works there and her daughter's boyfriend, the NOLA native that danced in several Mardi Gras parades along with another co-worker from Baton Rouge, the former crack addict whose life was saved by the gay southerner who had lived everywhere, tried everything, and now does fundraising drag shows all over the bay area, and culminating with the homeless hippie kids who hitchhike to new places every few weeks [separately, they had just met up a few days ago themselves], find food, shelter, and showers wherever they might be, and live just to live.

This world is so full of people, experiences, and incredible wonderment.