Why We Need to Talk to Strangers

CTA Clark/Lake Station | Photo by Piper Punches

I met a man on the train today.

No, not like that. It’s not what you think. It wasn’t a romantic connection, but it was a tangible human connection; something that’s missing more and more from our daily lives.

On this train, the Blue Line running out of downtown Chicago to the suburbs, I sat quietly. Every once in a while, I took out my phone to scroll through Instagram or find out what was happening in the world of Yahoo! News, but it was borin...