[30 Letters Challenge, Day 6] To a stranger

Dear stranger,

Hi, don't be afraid, come closer, I don't bite. And I love meeting new people, I love getting to know people, I love beginnings, and I love how the first moments in a relationship between two people that have never met are so important. But I'm so bad at first impressions, I swear I really am, so don't judge me too harshly, because I'm really trying my bestEST to seem normal and fine.

We've all been strangers to each other at some point. Besides when it comes to our families of course. But other than that, at some point anyone in your life was a stranger before you met them. What makes them go from stranger to friend, from unknown person to someone you talk to? Is it just seeing people once? I don't think so. I see people in public transports and in the streets every day, and it doesn't make them any less of strangers to me. Is it talking to them once at a party? I'm not so sure. I've met thousands of people and sometimes I even know their names, but they're still strangers in my book. Can you be a strangr to someone who isn't a stranger to you? If I only know you virtually, are you still that "stranger on th internet" TV aand parents warned me about?

I think someone stops being a complete stranger once you share something with them. Whether it is bonding over some silly thing that you like, or just getting to know each other thanks to someone you both now, it's always all about sharing. And I'm not good at sharing. I share things that don't matter instead of sharing what defines me, and I've come to realise that there are so many people who know nothing about me and yet shared something with me and I'm still a stranger to them but they don't realise. I think you cease to be a stranger once you open up to someone and I don't open up easily but I'm good at making people believe I actually did.

I'm working on that though, constantly. I share things but it takes time. It takes time. It takes time. I don't have time. I never have enough time. I'm still a stranger for some people who've known me for months. And they don't even realise, because I share little things that I either make up or that don't matter to me in the slightest. I've changed that though. I am trying to share more, and what I get back in return is always 10 times what I hoped for. I've always been the girl people can tell everything to, but I realised with time that I could share in return too, and that some day I wouldn't be such a stranger to everyone anymore.

So hang around, stranger, hang around, because the time for us not being strangers anymore is about to come. And I want it to be YOU not being a stranger anymore. I want it to be YOU I'm not a stranger to anymore. Do you think we could do that? I think we could. I think we will. Whether you're in my class, or just someone I follow on Twitter, whether you're that guy I often see at the library or that girl I bumped it to while getting something to it at the cafeteria, I'm determined to get to know more people. So I won't be surrounded by strangers anymore.

I probably love you already.

Louise.