Happy Christmas, Harry

It's like an empty feeling, a really big and empty feeling. Imagine a hole in the ground, like a trap, with a picnic cloth spread over it. And waiting for someone to walk by and (perhaps hoping for a picnic) stumble onto the cloth and into the hole and feeling up that empty feeling. When in reality it's still merely a hole with a person in it.

People take up space and make each other feel less empty.

I don't think that's a bad thing, as long as you know a lot of people. Or if you take up a lot of space inside the emptiness of someone else.

Oh bother.

Lucy took the long way home.

You can find out nearly everything that needs be known about a new person by a number of first impression questions. You're introduced to someone and you subtly lay on them this series of questions which will, give or take, allow you to make a fairly good judgment moving forward.

Question #1 What's your favorite color?

Though a seemingly typical inquiry, favorite colors can reveal much about a person . Some may say "blue" or "green" or "yellow", while others elaborate "sky blue", "sea foam green", "mustard yellow." People can also be easily divided into the green/yellow or pink/red/purple families, with blue somewhere in the middle. The blue people are always extra tricky.

Question #2 What's your favorite book?

The real question hiding behind question #2 is "do you read?" There are readers and non-readers and a gap the size of Alaska in between.

Question #3 If you had a tattoo, what would it be and where?

Tattoo's are of relative importance and we can indirectly find through said question what the person finds important (or what they would like to display as important). Also, are they creative or do they want a butterfly on their right ankle?

Question #4 What is your middle name?

There is a slight difference between middle namers and those without. It's good to know a persons full name.

Question #5 What's your favorite jungle animal?

This question is all about how the subject answers, quickly or hesitantly. The coolest people always have an awesome jungle animal on the tip of their tongue.

People are generally easy to figure out, except for the ones really worth knowing. If you're lucky, after a million questions, you can ask "do you love me?"

Well, do you?

A semi-optimistic and vague statistic of which I, myself, made up

Everybody, whether indirectly or directly, has at some point in time made someone elses life significantly better.

Everybody. That's a lot of people.