People Watching

Linda Seger, in her book on Character Development recommends you do some old fashioned people watching.

Therefore, since I am out and about where there are lots of people at the moment, this is a perfect opportunity. On the ferry the other day, I studied some people and slipped into an old game of trying to figure them out. What kind of house do they live in, what do they do, how did they meet their significant other, what is strange or unique about them and the like. So, I saw this serious looking woman who had made herself at home on the ferry, kicking off her shoes and leaning back in the sunshine, etc. She seemed like a tough sort of a woman who wouldn’t take any guff. I was dying to find out what she was reading as she seemed to be taking it very seriously. Was it Smithsonian? Was it a magazine related to her work? Know what it was? She pulled off her red reading glasses, tucked her grey hair back and swiveled in her seat and closed…a celebrity gossip magazine! What? Hmm…maybe that is the idiosyncrasy in her character? (I’m supposed to watch for those too.)

So like in the Jack Johnson song, this week, “I’m just people watching…”