Don’t you just hate it when you get stares from strangers on the street, stares as if to say you don’t belong here? When you’re walking down the street, happy and content, and you catch a stranger’s eye and they continue to stare at you almost like it’s a game of the last one standing. The cars and people pass by, buses and police cars continue to carry on with their jobs but nothing can stop the piercing stare connected to your eyes from a stranger across the road. The competition carries on, your afraid to back down as it will strip you of your dignity. Your blood is boiling now as you finally turn away to keep to your route home, you can feel the evil stare at the back of your head following you throughout the rest of the street.

The worst stares are those that come from the buses as you know that the stranger would never stare at you if they wasn’t in the safe haven of the big red bus. These stares are the ones that make me most frustrated. These stares make you wonder what there for… Do I have something on my face? Was I staring back? Am I walking funny? These are just a few things that come to mind when you come into the unwanted eye contact of another human being. Being stared at seems to almost be a sign of disrespect, as if the other person didn’t care about your feelings or if they just were staring to be rude.

The stares I can’t express my hatred for the them, it’s almost as if these stares can see deep into my soul sometimes I even think they can read my thoughts, they drive me crazy because I know the individual staring will always stay anonymous and I’d never ever know what they were staring at. Occasionally I have thought to myself, how would I know they were staring if I wasn’t staring back? So I thought long and hard about it and in the end I have realised I’m just as bad with this whole staring thing as the rest. I slowly start to piece together why this problem arises and I have come to the conclusion that if someone is staring at you first they will most likely turn away when you stare back, but if you stare first and they stare back their less likely to turn back around.

However, what happens if they think the same thing about me? what if all this time I was staring first? This is the most important thing to keep in mind to balance situations out. I could have been very naiive all this time only just realizing now, that I was staring at these people first. I always seem to get stares from people when I’m in a bad mood. could this be because they care for me or are they just worried for themselves? keeping an eye on me to make sure I don’t do anything anti social or dangerous.