[Invictus0]

Love yourself first.

Love yourself first. If you truly believe that you have value;

that when you open your mouth and speak to others, you brighten their day;

that when other people meet you, they are happier or smarter than they were before they met you;

then it is your natural obligation to talk to other people (don't dehumanize them by calling them strangers), because you are giving them the gift of your own special human light.

[jiggawatts]

I randomly said "Hi" and chatted very briefly about my kid and the apartment to a random young woman in the elevator. On the way out she literally did a little hop and a skip and in a chirpy tone she said "Yay! Interaction!"

I realised that after the COVID lockdowns people were so starved for contact with other people that any interaction would make their day. You don't need a pandemic for that, you can always make peoples' day just a bit better by saying hello.