Who is that person?

Have you ever had a think about the amount of people you interact with on a daily basis? Like, honestly thought about it? I work in the retail industry and I meet nearly 200 to 300 people a day, on average. I forget which people I have helped and, unless they are repeat, usual customers I never remember a face. That's not for lack of trying though. I do try, I just cannot remember all the people I meet once and then never see again. But there are those that I see repeatedly that I don't know anything about. The girl at Brumbys who sold me my breakfast pie. The girl at Woolies who sold me some water and a chair. The man at work who I spent 20 minutes with, explaining the difference between and Xbox and a PS3. Is it simply because I don't care? No. We just don't see people anymore. We see objects that resemble what people used to be but aren't. We see the shape of a person behind the counter, but only acknowledge our change. What do we know about them? Nothing, or so close to it to make no difference. The guy at the Servo, what's his story? Is he rich? Is he poor? Is he straight or gay? Sick or Heathly? Mean or Nice? Married or Single? The girl who cooks the food you eat for lunch? What of her? Does she have AIDs? Does she have Depression? Will she kill herself? What about the people that do? Why did they do it? Normally, we don't care unless, either, they were close to us or as gossip. Is it because we can't ask questions? Is it because we don't? We won't? When did we stop caring about other human beings outside our own little circle? When did it become socially ambigious to ask questions? Will they get mad if I ask them? Will they get upset? I'd better not just incase. I'm planning on making an effort to make people human again, just by myself. From this day forward I will endeavour to ask at least one person a day, a question in no way related to me. "So, what was your weekend like?" "How long have you been married?" "Are you planning on having more kids?". Just something to make myself realize that people are people. Not blank spaces filling the roles that people used too. What do you think?