arts/culture: ORDINARY PEOPLE

one of them is being able to mingle and do your regular interaction

with people and society without paparazzi's chasing after your tail...

and another one ....

people have lesser propensity to
make any big deal about your

inadequacies and imperfections...

STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me,
and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?

And why should I not speak to you?.....
Walt Whitman....."Leaves of Grass"....13. "To You"

an ordinary but intimate conversation

you can go out in the streets without worrying

about your looks ...

do anything that non ordinary people

cannot do.....

a student waiting for the number 18 bus
with carrot and phone in hand

life is a bit easier...

note another Whitman....

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d;
I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;	685
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied—not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.