This was a post on my LinkedIn profile a few days back in Sep 2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drspmi...
THE PERFECT STRANGER
Have you realized in our lives we succeed in many things because of the perfect strangers we meet, who positively impact our lives?
As per different dictionaries, the definitions of the word stranger are as under;
• a person with whom one has had no personal acquaintance
• is someone who has never been there before
• a person that you do not know; a person not known or familiar with one
• a person who is in a place that he/she does not know
• one in the house of another as a guest, visitor, or intruder
• an outsider, newcomer, or foreigner or a guest or visitor
The moment we are born, we are surrounded by our parents and closest family members who become part of our early childhood life, until we step into the outside world such as the play school/school and so on. As humans, we meet strangers all the time, who become our friends, neighbors, colleagues, associates, partners, spouses, and extended family members/relatives through marriage, the marriage of children, and so on. Not all strangers you meet fairly deal with you. Many come and go out of our lives quickly. Some behave meanly. But the perfect strangers are those, who despite not knowing you before, treat you well, support you, guide you, love you, respect you, and so on. These perfect strangers are the positive catalysts in life, who make big or incremental positive changes in your lives. The other extreme side of the spectrum is those strangers, who behave or deal with you in a mean manner from day one, and they also have a great role in shaping you as a person. Through these mean strangers, we learn the lessons of our lives and guard ourselves from any such future challenges.
So, all kinds of strangers in our lives are important, but the perfect strangers provide 10X to 100X more benefits than the mean ones. I wish every day, we could meet with at least one perfect stranger, who can bring a lot of new ideas, thoughts, and benefits into our lives and help us grow substantially or incrementally in our lives into a better version of ourselves.
Now that you have understood the importance of meeting a perfect stranger every day, at least make it a point to be a perfect stranger to others, when you meet them. Because if you are good to someone, in return someone else will be good to you in the future. This is a cycle of Karma, what goes out also comes back in. I wish you met a perfect stranger today. And be a good stranger yourself to others. India Career Centre
