h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just thought I'd drop in and say hi. I've been roaming about here and there to see what is going on. In the process of wondering this became a stop. Feel free to come find me if you just wanna chat. It's time to meander on I think. C-YA!

Lunar Flare

Hello yourself. Nice of you to drop in, although quite how my (as yet solitary) little page became a stop on your wanderings is an interesting question. One week is not really enough time to make a huge impact.

I see you're new yourself; what do you think of this place?

See you around - or maybe not, but you know what I mean....

Actually, you became a stop because you are a new folk as well. I was just kind of meandering around getting a feel for things, and seeing what's going on. I was spending a little time dropping in on other new folks, and if they had posted anything yet I left a little note to say hi. I had a couple of people do that, and I thought it would be nice to do the same. I'm a big fan of meeting new people and if nothing else just saying hi. Besides, saying hi often opens the doors to conversations that are everything from interesting to just plain goofy. However, if you don't at least say hi, you'll never know what what conversations could have been. Ya know?

LF

All very true. One of my best friendships is the result of randomly being asked directions in the street one day. I think that one of the great things about life is that its the stupid, spur-of-the-moment decisions you make end up having the most effect on your life. Which makes is gloriously unpredictable sometimes

(Conversely, you spend ages agonising over supposedly really important things, only to find that it makes very little difference either way...)

I think sometimes what is omportant and what isn't is kind of a fuzzy shade of grey. Don't get me wrong there are some things that are black and white, important and not. I just don't think that everything in life is like that. Things may seem important at the moment, but when you stop later and look at them again, it could turn out to be not as vital as you once thought. Either way, some of my closest friendships came out of what at the moment seemed almost meaningless. Though that leads to another intreuging (SP?) thought. After all, what is not so important to one person may be of vast importance to another. I think that is how people can say that someone effected their life and the other person has no idea. I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

LF

Well, people are intrinsically self-centred; which isn't as nasty as it sounds! All I mean is that everyone initially thinks of the world in terms of how it affects *them*. Important events and actions are defined as those which have the greatest impact on *us*.

So it's perfectly possible for someone we know to have a huge effect on us without them realising, and vice versa; an act which you barely remember, because it was no trouble, because it was done on an impulse, can change someone's life

Often we do not realise the true impact unless we are told, which I find only happens in the deepest (and best) friendships.

The trouble, of course, starts when we forget that to everyone else we are *not* the centre of the universe (in the metaphorical sense... ).