Did they use stranger danger to try to isolate you?
Hey guys!
For the last couple weeks I've been thinking of how my nmom always talked about how should I be aware of stranger danger, that I should never talk to people that I don't know etc.
Now, people were, are and will be weird, but not everyone wants to put knife inbetween your ribs and steal your wallet lol.
For example, today I went to take some gas and sumbled across some dude in a really nice old 6 series BMW (I think it was like 1977 633 CSi, I can't really remember tho) and I had a really nice small talk with him and I didn't feel like I need to step on the gas the second he went to say thank you.
Another example, I collect and shoot film cameras and it's a huge spice of mine. I've had people stop me and ask me about my cameras when I wore them on my neck in the public. I even met some old people that stopped me just to remember the good ol' days, for example when one old lady talked to me about how her husband had some old Pentax back in the day that he used to shoot etc.
Heck, I use Reddit lol, I talk to strangers in here on almost daily basis.
I'm an introvert and I don't really crave communication, but I don't mind a good small talk time to time. If I'd listen to her and didn't talk to anyone, I'd probably be a shaky ball of anxiety and would probably rot in room to the end of the days. This is such a terrible way to dissociate your kids by telling them that everyone outside of the house is bad.
As I said, it's good to have some kind of stranger danger awareness in the back of your head, but not everyone is evil son of a bitch that will swing a fist at you the second you stumble across them.
Does anyone else have this kind of experience?
Thank you for your time and comments!