encounters

Last spring I did a project out in union square called "MY SPACE" it was a physical version of the myspace website.. I was trying to just talk to people out in public space and while doing so I met this guy called Joshua. He left some poems on my wall and I saw him a couple of times after that. Today I was walking on 14th st and I was stopped by none other than Joshua. It was pretty amusing, he came up to me and said excuse me but have we met before? I loved it. I told him yes we had and where. He was very happy to run into me. He told me that since the spring he's been to a lot of places. He just packed up and went to the midwest and traveled around with some friends by bike. He went from state to state, just being a wanderer and finally decided that he had to come back to NY because he had been having dreams about it. And now he was back, he just walks and wanders talking to whoever he feels a connection to, trying to figure out the questions of life. Why are we here? What are we doing? What is the point? What I loved most was... If a man spends his entire life working in aerodynamics, and builds plane after plane, figuring out the most efficient way for them to fly, how to carry more people, how to make them go higher... is it more meaningful than a man who spends his entire life at home making paper airplanes? 

I love people who just wander, in fact I'm very jealous of them, its very nice to not have anything to tie you down and no borders nor limitations.... Soon :)