Often I find myself staring into nothing. This happens most of the time when I am outside. I look at the waves of the sea (I live quite close to the ocean), or I look at whoever is walking down the street. I can do this quite long actually without being bothered by anything or anyone.
A lot of times I feel not too many people are doing this anymore. Because they are distracted by the people around them, or even more common: By their phone. Im not going to lie to you guys, I have my fare share of being occupied by my phone. But when I am outside this totally disappears. Also when I am in public transportation I can totally be absorbed by what is happening around me. I remember when I was taking the bus often or riding on the train that hardly any people around me were looking outside.
But there is so much to see outside! Especially when you are in a train. Driving through fields with cows, sunsets, people acting stupid on the road. I love it. Public transportation gets even more hilarious when people around you are annoyed and complaining. It makes me smile. Sometimes they dont seem to see the beauty of what is around them. Everywhere around them.
Even more funny is when I walk in town here on a busy tourist day. My parents also noticed this last time when they were visiting us. They said that people on vacation are complaining so much! And nobody is talking and smiling. We laughed about it really hard, because what can possibly be there that you can not smile while visiting a beautiful Caribbean island. After that they said this, I started noticing it even more. I like to stare at people and just smile.
Sometimes people will ask me what I am thinking while I am saying nothing and just staring in the distance. Asking me if I am contemplating about life. And if I look back on what I was thinking, the majority of the times I was thinking about absolutely nothing! I just love to stare...