Me thinks..

I have spent the past hour or so just looking at other peoples blogs on here. It is incredibly weird to read the private thoughts of a compete stranger, and yet, somehow incredibly ineresting. One would think, since I have no idea who they are and therefore shouldn't really feel a real emotional connection to them, that it would be boring to read their daily musings. But... it isn't. It's fascinating. I truly feel sorry for and interested in the people whose blogs I just read. One guy was living in his van (he writes in his blog at his friends house), another woman has been forced to give over custody of her children to her ex-husband because she can't afford to keep her kids. I think it must just be basic human nature to find the lives of fellow beings of ones species interesting, whether they physically live in your life or not. One feels connected to them simply because they are human. One of your own kind. They, on the most basic level, are given at birth the same thing that you are given: a mind. It is amazing to get a glimpse of what other people have done with that resource. Interesting to read not only about what they have accomplished but, more importantly, how they feel about what they have accomplished.
Hm. I have to think some more. I'll finish my thought later today.