We have two kinds of relationships with strangers. In one, we don’t talk to them, don’t trust them, don’t invite them in if they knock, don’t make eye contact, and don’t take online relationships into real life unless it’s in a public place first.  This is the relationship in which strangers are dangerous and mysterious, alien and foreign, unknown outsiders. They’re very intriguing, but it’s best to keep our distance. Article continues after advertisement In a parallel relationship, we are actually obsessed with strangers. We love to scroll through their lives, for hours, from the safety of our phones. We relate to them. We follow them. They make us laugh and cry. We watch them dancing, singing, ranting, protesting, teaching, arguing, creating, cooking, searching for connection. Being human. Just like us. That’s why those moments when fate has throws us into the same place at the same time to cross paths with a stranger are so exciting. Anything can happen.…