Stolen Glances

You know those moments- a glance at a stranger on the bus, in a grocery store, or a crowded subway station that seems to connect you with that person for a split second. You make eye contact, and in those few moments, everyone else in the room disappears. Time seems to stand still. Well, at least until your subway train whizzes from your happy moment.

Everyone seems to experience these little 2-second love excursions. James Blunt even has a song about his lost connection.



CNN.com has a cool story about these lost connections, and the romance ads that have been popping up on the Internet since ISawYou.com and SubwayCrush.com were intoduced. One couple in the story even owes a lot to Craigslist, which has a "missed connections" board on the site. Question is- is the Internet making it too easy to find people? Back in the day, those lost connections would be lost forever. I guess I wouldn't expect anything less from our Internet world today. But, maybe the Internet really is bringing people together, even if it is through "girl in the red sweater on West 82nd" romance ads. Maybe James Blunt should post his lost connection...