Do you greet strangers in the street?
I am not talking about busy city streets, where you cross your path with dozens of people per minute, that would be impossible. But in a village, a small park or even a quiet city neighbourhood, do you?
I do. Especially after a decade living in small villages where not saying good-morning to everybody you meet is considered rude :)
But even now that I am in a town, there are places that I greet people that I don't know. Usually during the morning walk of the dog, on not too busy pathways, or the parts of the town that are usually quiet.
I mean when you cross your path with someone it seams only natural to me to look and say "good-morning".
Most people though, are not like that. There are those that welcome the greeting with a smile and respond back but there also many, probably more, that avoid eye contact and any interaction. Which is fine too, I just don't get it. Greeting someone cannot harm you. The worst case scenario is to be indifferent while usually it gives a sparkle of good vibes in your day!
So why not?
Anyway in this particular walk there was no-one around. It was earlier than my usual early walk and I went at an even quieter place than my usual quiet route. The dog loved it, since it was a chance to be off the leash and the photographer in me loved it too since the light was brilliant. And as much as I prefer to take pictures with my camera it was either my phone or nothing.
I chose the phone!
On my way back I was pleasantly surprised as I saw a lady with her daughter approaching, obviously foreigners, that greeted me before I do and on top of that they did it in Greek. Something that I really appreciated.
When I go to a foreign country the first think to do, even if I don't speak their language is to learn a couple of greetings. Common courtesy towards the people of the place that I am visiting. And I am saying this because most tourists in Greece take for granted that they will address to us in English and we'll respond. Which we do but it is much nicer when you show the effort to learn at least one word of the other's language, isn't it?
The last pictures are from the beach, the activity that follows the dog walk and precedes the day's duties :)
I took those pictures with a Redmi Note 12s mobile phone and did some minor editing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic.
All the pictures and the words are mine.
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