When No One’s Watching (7/9/14)

I picked up playing my favorite sport while I was living in Paris, and there is no place better to play it then sitting at a bistro on the Champs-Élysées with cup of coffee and a croque-monsieur. There is nothing I enjoy more than people watching when they are absorbed in their own little world completely oblivious to the world around them. It’s at that point in time you get to see who people really are.

It’s true that you get a more accurate representation of who a person really is by watching how they act compared to what they say, and there is no better way to study people than out in the wild in their natural environment. Spending 15 hours at Tampa International Airport with a sign greeting incoming guest for a conference was the perfect opportunity to observe the wildlife.

It was an interesting couple of days because the majority of people walked past me like I wasn’t even present. The advantage to being a wallflower is the passersby really are being their authentic selves, and I find it amazing the way some people will act when they think no one is paying attention.