Nishmitha Rodrigo Week 6 Neighborhood analysis

Something in my neighborhood that I see everyday is the mall. When you think about a mall, you typically tend to think of clothes, shoes, makeup and so on. Basically like all aspects of materialistic things. When people think of a mall they usually don’t even acknowledge the whole human interaction concept of it that takes place in there every single second of every single day.  Sometimes it’s so easy to ignore the people that goes in and out of it every single day. People never really stops and take a second to observe, they’re being dragged around with their fast paced lives.

So many people with so many different backgrounds. Some may be having the best day of their lives, some may be having the worst day of their lives, for some it could be their last day ever and for others it could be just another day. Point being, each person inside the mall carries a different story within them, yet everyone is there for the same thing, which is materialistic satisfaction. So many different interactions take place at the mall every single day, yet no one ever really stops to analyze anything. This is something I’ve noticed about a lot of people at the mall, including myself because when I go to the mall and have a conversation with a random person, I have noticed myself forgetting the person’s name and face within 5-10 mins of the interaction. It is so odd to me that in a place where there is constant interaction going on is a place where people barely notice or even pay attention to each other.

I added the part about how I have realized that people never really stops and looks around due to their fast paced lives. It seems like when the materialism takes over human interaction no longer seems to matter, at least isn’t a priority anymore.  I think you can find out a lot about an individual if you really payed attention and observed them.