The thing with staring...

Its been a long, long time since I took public transport. For the past five years, I have been travelling by car. When I returned to Singapore, I went back to taking public transport. I noticed one obvious thing. Poeple stare at each other.

I cam acroos an article before on this issue. It was written by a non- Asian who made the observation that this behaviour of staring at strangers is apparent in the Asian countries especially Singapore. One of the reasons that she said to be the cause of this culture is that fact that we Asians are not confident with ourselves. Thus we tend to stare at people to see whtether the girl across the aisle is prettier than us or whether she is wearing something nicer that us.

Hence according to this writer if we are confident with ourselves we will not be staring and analysing strangers. I don't know but maybe this may be true.

For me I do tend to look at strangers but it is not because I want to compare myself with others. It is just that some times some peoples wear nice things. So I basicaly admire how they look and what they are wearing and if possible learn a thing or two about dressing up. There is no hidden agendas..And I don't stare at people for hours. I would just take a glance and move on.

But I don't deny that being stared by people is uncomfortable..