Hello Syndrome

I read about it in a book. I normally never do, but this time somehow I did! So there is this man, Joe Kita who talks about "Hello Syndrome". At first, I was like some boring mumbo-jumbo article. But as I read on, it was really good.

He tries to convey as to what the word "Hello" means, and what we take it for. According to Joe, he tries the "Hello Syndrome" for a month, wherein he greets everyone on the streets!

lol. That sounds crazy. Just think about it.

Hello, how are you doing Mr....... Mr....... , I am sorry I didn't get your name the last time we met!

Joe is really confident throughout his article. He says, "Friendliness is so rare nowadays, it's disarming."

From his article -
"People you wouldn't normally acknowledge turn out to be the friendliest. The gnarly, the dirty, the semi-strange … in other words, the people I'd normally avoid or not even notice were the ones who reacted the most warmly. No doubt it's because they're so accustomed to being ignored that any acknowledgment is akin to being feted at the Rotary."

Joe is right when he says - "You need to be careful around kids."
It's an unfortunate, but necessary, sign of our times that youngsters are instinctively wary of strangers. Next to motorists, 5- to 15-year-olds ignored me the most. Although that wasn't surprising, it did sadden and even scare me. To them I was a predator.

Finally after reading the whole thing, I went for it. In just one day I was back home and did not go out for a couple of days.

When I tried it - "Hello, how do you do?", I got many stares and some even ignored my greeting. There was this one guy who said - "Do I know you?"

I never got a chance to explain to him what I was doing, he was already at the end of the path. Believe me this is really hard.

Joe Kita says in his article, "It's not as easy as you think."

Please do tell me, what do you think about it...