Day 8 – Coming Of Age At 62 – Finding Purpose

I finally accepted my purpose in life.

I fought it, thinking it wasn’t BIG enough. It came too easily. But when you come of age at 62, it’s time to embrace your calling.

Chatting.

I’m a natural. I can chat up most anyone. My ideal person just needs to:

• have a sense of humor (I can’t abide humorless people) and
• like to answer questions about themselves.

That’s a large niche. I’m golden.

Just today while talking with a stranger I learned:

1. He is from southern Tunisia.
2. His parents have a business in Paris.
3. He worked at the Paris biz  for awhile but then went back to Tunisia.
4. He is living in America because it is his destiny.
5. He wanted to travel and visited New York City.
6. He met a girl and stayed in America.
7. I could tell you what his next five jobs were; where his wife is from and more.

Do you know that much about the last stranger you encountered?

In fact, when was the last time you really talked to a stranger?

(I should have these questions in a survey format to determine the competition before I go for Angel Financing to fund my Professional Chatting Business.)

I’ll start with a kiosk in a mall. Then I’ll expand to the lobbies of corporations. Hotels. Airports. “HAVE EARS, WILL LISTEN” (If you have an idea for a better name please leave it in the comment section).

In this day and age when people are so busy, when connections are often on-line vs. face-to-face, this would be a novelty. And powerful.

Of course I’m joking. I’m not going for financing, nor opening up a Chatting Business; but I made that man’s day and he and I both felt good about it.

See who you can chat-up today. They’ll appreciate it.

* Photo from flickr: All rights reserved by gails_man (image hunter)