This resonated in the case for openness. Be one on the fringe and in the extreme on the edge and open to anything and you’ll be surprised what you find.

As someone born in 1978 and having my millennial identity and mindset questioned just because of my age has made me at first question who I am but now I say “age is just a number” and “It’s who you think you are that matters.”

But many try to put people in boxes whether it be age, business title or college major, skin tone, economic status, weight, height or so many things that don’t matter.

I resonated with this because I was the kid who would talk to anyone wherever and whenever I could bend their ear and bend mine in return. Through my many many conversations I’ve leaned that people are social beings — - period. We love to connect and be appreciated and find rapport with others who “get us” or want to.

Great article, I could talk forever about this one topic. But we need to remember one thing, we’re all connected, life is the experiment we all undertook in order to learn to find how much we are similar and not different. Make a friend today or help a stranger and you never know if that friend or stranger may someday change or save your life.