Wednesday, January 14, 2009
more smiles
I was riding home today, and I got to the union square platform and saw a guy with an entire piano. He was playing "here comes the sun". It was quite a nice site, to see that it wasn't a guitar player, nor a drum player but a piano in the subway. I stood there listening for a while and I started to look around at the people who were watching him. It was really awesome to see people taking off their headphones just to hear the sound, and watching as some peoples faces changed from the usual manhattan scowl to a genuine smile. The guy who was playing got up and grabbed a piece of paper from the bucket where money was thrown in and told me he got a love letter. The letter said "Hey Mr piano man, I think that you are really awesome and I'm sorry that I don't have any money to give you but I genuinely want to thank you for making me smile and making my day, thank you." It is moments like these that make me love NY. I wonder if music really is the most powerful thing to change people.... "sing us a song you're the piano man, sing us a song tonight, cause we're all in the mood for a melody and you got us feeling all right."
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Korea is baren wasteland when it comes to people initiating smiles/interaction
However, they will always smile back at you.
Yesterday this guy was struggling to open A starbucks frappucino bottle, so i helped him, he was very happy
as i was walking away he yelled
"Yogi! Yogiyo" (hey over here)
"Hana Drink" (1 drink)
{ he invited me to a drink}
I politely refused, i was tired, and last time i went out to a drink with a stranger he a was a Korean Supremasist marine. But anyway... i forgot what i was saying.
Haha, thats pretty hilarious. I think that its not that different in NY though. People almost never just smile here in NY. But its enough for just one person to start it and just to notice how people he passes start to change. I had a project idea for a crowded NY train. It involved getting onto the first cart and screaming out
"EXCUSE ME, I would like to say that I am not a bum, and I am not asking for money. I just want to say how happy I am to be in NY with you. Thank You" and go from car to car doing the same thing. I wanted to see how people would react and whether they would smile or not. Perhaps I'll do it sometime soon. :)
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