Back in the day when I was still in my hippie phase with dreds down to my ass, wearing a hand painted t-shirt and some raggedy ass pants, pierced face and bangles and shit all up my arms. In a conservative shit hole town where I was getting dirty looks and was even denied entry to pub not long before because they thought my roll up cigarette was a joint lol.

And I was also going through some pretty bad personal shit so I was feeling especially low and hard done by. And then a little old Indian lady that I walked past stopped and stopped me to especially tell me “you are very beautiful. And don’t let anyone make you think differently.” Getting close to 20 years later now and I’ve never forgotten it or that lady.

Apart from that, one of my favourite things as a pedestrian is having an occasional little moment with someone in their car at a stop street. When you just happen to look at each other and make eye contact and smile. That 5 second little connection that occasionally happens always leaves me smiling for the next 5 minutes.