Numerous times I saw innocent strangers, looked at them, and felt this nostalgia. It’s true that at first such sentences appear nonsensible, but somehow they’re perfectly placed together; hear me out! Stereotypes come from somewhere.
Let’s begin with one of the most nostalgic autumn moments that beamed with the day’s last remaining sun and chilly air. While stepping on the cracked sidewalks in my favorite park, I briefly glanced at the trendy college students that lived just blocks away. Many of them held hands and appeared to share genuine connections. Such was revealed by their gleaming eyes. This might sound a bit silly that such scenes made me a bit melancholic. Many of the youthful relationships would not make it past half a year because it was not meant to last or so I imagined based on real-life tropes.
Months later, the physical settings would possibly change. We remained more or less the same because it simplified such disorganized, chaotic civilization. We went about our daily routines, said and did things that we regretted moments later, and refused to let our toxic thoughts decimate. The same resentments we often stunted much-needed changes in life.
Imagine having the ability to organize a library and every person who you met had a booklet that best revealed how they impacted your life story. There would be a section for drama, comedy, or cheap romance.
After having trillion brief interactions we might begin to look at the patterns. Some people are social animals hunting for the next crowded events to latch onto, so it might be easier to speak with them about things related to smalltalk. Then there are the more introverted types who might at first appear less friendly or open than their extroverted counterparts. Such categorization offers simplification. But we must not forget to look beyond the stereotypes that are applied to other people.
More often than not, books dedicated to focusing on the people in our lives cannot always be placed into one genre. A comedic book might have elements of a tragedy or a narrative might begin to transform into an experimental piece that incorporates stream of consciousness writing. People cannot be entirely categorized or stereotyped. We can be surprised by how much they might break away from our preconceived notions.
The phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover” might be overstated. Its meaning might go over our heads, but it’s important to remind ourselves of how valuable it is to often show kindness to others. Through kindness we can get to know people in a more personal level. We can perhaps see more glimpses of good behavior than bad.
Judgment and categorization may give the illusion of order. The world’s chaos and complexity cannot be tamed by human-made observations
Cathartic Tendencies 
A high trust society can be more open/tolerant/inclusive though being trusting can be exploited by individuals and groups from a low-trust society be it a war torn area or tribal mentality. Lacking judgement is forfeiting your instinctual gut feelings which are more often than not things that pick up on signals that the rational mind often overlooks. Let’s say you/or someone admires bear cubs and wants one as a pet, it angers/frustrates the mother and/or father bears to defend what is theirs. Lacking prejudice or lacking judgement is seeing the good without seeing the bad/potential harm that could/can happen.
It is good to not look to external help, rather if there is a problem in your life it is best to look within. Forgiveness should be applied to self-realization. Appeasement and compromise may be propped up in the media/culture as how families function though that subdued conflict doesn’t have to be the case when searching for a kindred spirit. Being with the like-minded or with one’s tribe is not a “sin.” Conflict itself is growth whether internal or external though the media, news, etc. do try to spin things out of proportion often.
The relationships or coupling in high school and college/university are all about mindset. There is a version set by Hollywood often though not always a caricature of a true romance/relationship, there is the music industry and human commodification deemed liberation which promotes promiscuity and hedonism, and then there are the folks that seek to form a committed long term bond where two spirits slowly merge into one. Often in the modern world of distraction/distortion/inversion many relationships in the school setting are surface level.
The survival mechanism of fight or flight is not something to be entirely rationalized away nor is it entirely good to think first and ask questions later. Rather folks uniqueness stems from their path having diverged from your own/being in conflict with you.
Europe is a beautiful place and so are it’s people though the grudges that may help external adversaries divide and conquer Europe can also be seen as giving validity to and reinforcing cultural/linguistic/ethnic unique divergence instead of merging it all together. Eastern Europe may be seen as more backward by some and more traditional by others though it may be more nuanced than that as the problems Western Europe faces the east faces as well though those problems and how they are dealt with in the east are no doubt different than the west.
When meeting different folks in different social settings you may wear a different personality/demeanor based on the context/circumstance, hence how folks interpret the same event so much differently and how even you yourself may not always remember things the same way as you had when you were a child versus now or the future.
Rebels/outlaws don’t always fit in to any group which can mean greater freedom though there is also the potential for greater loneliness. Also an organized society bast functions with some level of cohesion/homogeneity without which the society splinters/fragments. The United States is NOT Europe. Nor is Japan, China. Even Taiwan and China as much as they seek to claim each other are unique divergent groups that would be more pronounced going their separate ways.
Regret for the past is based on going into a situation without fully being aware of yourself, your surroundings, what you seek in the situation, or the potential that could await you if you persevered down a specific path that you overlook. Resentment could be envy, doubt, escapism, anger over someone or a situation, or anger/frustration toward the foreign/different. Playing it safe/staying in your shell/comfort zone/safe space may be enough for some maybe for many though there is a feverish thrill or awkward exhilaration toward jumping off the cliff into unknown territory/going beyond your own roadblocks/society or family roadblocks.
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