Who's 1 stranger that you still remember? (Strangers Answer)

this girl I met on the airplane she was flying and she couldn't see outside at the sky and the sunset that was going on but she felt the heat of it so she would just ask me what it looked like so I described as her so I remember because I appreciate sight because of her one time I was working a part-time as an uber driver and I picked up this man he was from Vietnam somehow it's been kind of a long time but I remember him telling me how many people died Vietnamese died in the Vietnam War and how he because of what had happened he had to go to training and like right when he was done with training was like this second they stopped the war so he didn't have to go and the whole time was hit this story he was telling me on the way to hit where I was taking him to his destination and he said you know sometimes people are very lucky I was a very lucky man and he said sometimes not so lucky and I was dropping him off at the Cancer Center and I don't know why but it just touched me so much that he shared that with me and it's always stuck with me and he was a very lovely man and I'll always remember him to this day I just wish that I had stayed with him because I don't think anyone was there with him before his cancer treatment that's what I wish to this day I was in Pompeii and this older Italian couple was there just as some tourists looking at the pompeii ruins and they saw that we were Americans and they came up to me just out of the blue and they said are you American and I said yes and they're like threw their arms around me and said thank your grandparents you saved our lives who always loved Americans Rory did for us after World War two and as a young American and I never really realized the hug from those old people I didn't even know just because we were Americans I remember I saw this this homeless man and his two daughters in this alcove in Chicago one night I'll just always remember it wishing I could do something more wishing I would have done something I was working in a grocery store just like heading somewhere to go put something away this guy goes you don't look like you belong here you look like you should be in a larger city doing something important so are you in a big city now yeah what are you doing I'm a jewelry designer so we do say that he was right and that okay came to you yeah and I never thought about that and you'll probably be the third stranger I remember like ten years later so it was in Phuket Islands silence so I met this girl who came from South Africa and I don't know I must have been like 14 and so we met at the swimming pool and we play like ping pong and everything and at that time I didn't speak a word of English or like with the Singaporean accents because I lived there and she kept on helping me having a better accent and particularly particularly for three the thing with the tongue that we in French in French we don't do and so I remember that she kept on telling me say three three three have this in mind and while we were taking the boat you have the de motor of the boat which makes a lot of sounds and I was training myself because I knew that no one around could hear me and I was like just like three three three I remember this girl who was pretty as well and really nice and thanks to her I learned the thing with the tongue to speak English that's the story I was doing Peace Corps in Guatemala and for some reason I was really late in getting to my bus to take me to my little village and so I knew I was not supposed to be walking at night by myself but I didn't have any other choice so I was by myself walking to the bus station which is kind of a little Shady and this man comes up to me and he says stay with me right now you need to walk take a right take a right and I was like what's going on and he's like you're you're in danger right now and so he kept walking and got out of there and there was I guess I allegedly a group of guys or a gang that was there that were that were watching me come in and so I went to his house he took me there and he fed me dinner with his kids and ended up driving me up my house and so I was a pretty amazing experience so what made you trust him um I don't know there was something about his motive that felt like it was altruistic that he really cared had no idea it was just instinctual and really fast but it actually wasn't very long ago in fact it was on Friday I went ice skating on my own and as I was leaving the ice-skating rink I heard a little voice say hola and I looked down and it was a little Down syndrome girl and like full figure skating outfit with her little figure skating skates on and she was waving at me and it was she was super super cute so what does that stand out to you do think I have a Down syndrome uncle who is one of my favorite people in the world yeah so when when I saw her just might be really happy so I was at a grocery store at home and I was looking at coffee creamer and I showmen came up to me and told me that my eyes looked beautiful and that I was really pretty and he made me feel really good about myself and so yeah why do you think that meant so much to you because I have very low self-esteem and I'm very [Music] self-conscious about everything about me and so he just made me feel really good about myself and the fact that it was from a stranger and not prompted from any friends or family or anything I think that's kind of what really made it feel so special and like okay it was really genuine and it's not he wasn't just telling me because it's something I wanted to hear I got in a car accident and I spun around like six times and I end up hitting trees and then he just added up everybody who passed by me he was the one who came getting me out of the trees he drugged me out he was like hey are you all right I was like yeah what happened he was like well you just crashes with trees and then he like he told me it was a retired EMT so he helped me out a lot but everybody that passed by ain't nobody really like stopped to help me out and then this random guy see me I'm seeing me crashing inside a row he stopped to help me out I was a good guy Ricardo una and Sienna Colombia movio and allowed to booze and it was in she told me something like - it is Pelle Rojo and los pelos belarusan person asked a dancer de MFA is co l Brussels if espera la - Earth Day it's a point you're like what I was a cashier at Home Depot and I'm non-binary I'm trans feminine I have a really complicated relationship with gender that is a big source of I guess I could even say emotional torment for me and trans grow payments in my line who fully embodied everything that I wanted to be and struck a nerve with me and as our transaction continued and I rang her up and her card kept declining and declining and declining it was just like look like if I can help this person I will I hate that cost I just inserted my card so it was just like here you go I thought that was gonna be it we left went about our day she comes back completely surprised with $20 bill in hand hands it to me gives me a giant hug and tells me that she's really grateful for what I did for and that I can be like hers to some day and that it'll get better and I never really forgot about that if you're out there and if you see this thank you it still means a lot can you try to describe to us what she said that to you I felt less alone I felt like I wasn't a freak or that I wasn't weird or outlandish for feeling that way and it made me feel like other people experience the same thing and even though I know other people's spirit experience that I'm not the only freaking non-binary kid in the world that still feels like it sometimes and knowing out that there are people out there with the same kindness in their hearts that you like to keep in yours this is a really comforting feeling one stranger that stood out to me was actually this couple they were probably in their late 50s I remember walking to school every morning almost mornings and even on mornings where I would walk to school I would drive by because they would always walk past me and they would just be walking next to each other whether it was raining the weather was even if it was absolutely excuse my language they would always be with each other always talking every morning it was when I was in high school so three four years ago and I still wonder like if they're still walking down that path they're still talking thirty days ago it's an airplane this man offered me a hundred dollars to switch seats of him I didn't so the most memorable must reason why do you think it's livable because no one ever offers me money do things but not that I want that but like I don't want like strings attached I'll be weird like I feel like I'd be compelled to like have a conversation with him I just didn't have and so yeah I was twenty I woke up somebody came out from under my bed with a knife and a bandana and told me they were gonna kill me and the only thing I knew to do was to say Hail Marys and he kept getting mad at me saying what are you saying what are you saying and I just kept saying hail Mary full of grace and the next thing I know I come up out of that bed with my fist and he's against the wall and running out of my home so to this day I'm glad I didn't do it to you today when somebody awakens me watch out oh never caught we moved and I haven't had a negative stranger incident since old one me too but what I was really left with was the power of prayer that's the end story that what I remember it was a junior year of high school I was in Boston in the Logan Airport and I was killing a bunch of time with my parents so I decided to walk around there was this really really long hallway with a bunch of moving walkways and there was this lady with her son with like seven suitcases like running from one side to the other and I wasn't doing anything so I was like running along the moving walkway and I asked her if she needed any help and she didn't speak English very well but I was like carrying her bags and then I just tried to like make conversation and she was saying that her her family oh sorry her mom had like just passed away so she was going to visit so I thought kind of like resonated with me because you really never know what everyone's going through until you like start the started the conversation so I actually ran my college essay about that and I'm in college now so it worked out right it's kind of crazy because there's this very specific emotion where you could be surrounded by his first day in college you're surrounded by so many people on the same stage of life with you but it's so easy to feel lonely you definitely feel so some sort of hope when you realize that everyone has so many different stories if you don't get to hear it we start the first conversation so I love talking to strangers this is what we're doing now right yeah it's hard to take the first step to start a conversation but I think it's really important to do it in the first place yeah hey guys thanks for watching another episode if you haven't subscribed to my channel yet and you want to subscribe to my channel please make sure to hit the subscribe button and a little ball next to it so you'll get notified every time I put up a new episode I think that's pretty much it thank you guys again and I'll see you next week [Music] you

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Id: BrY7YQ7Vm2I

Length: 12min 44sec (764 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2019