Lahore - Travelogue

How many amongst us can have it in them to break all inhibitions and initiate a 'no threads attached' conversation with a total stranger? Many of us look forward to sitting opposite a cute stranger on a flight and talking to him/her is synonymous to a all conquering feeling. Its only half as fun for somebody who likes to believe their an extrovert and picking a random conversation does not mean you get to rehearse the first few lines. I do not give the aforementioned folks an ounce of credit because courage is not the absence of fear, rather courage is having fear yet doing it.
A work colleague and another close friend were sititng with me at a lunch table in my hotel in Lahore. We were discussing modalities pertaining to how Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) can be big in the public service sector companies such as KESC, local townships etc. The call centres here could provide job opportunities to thousands and customer complainst could be tracked and monitored at a federal level in Islamabad. Suddenly this guy sitting alone at a distant table shouts 'you guys from the call center industry as well?'...Our first reaction was silence and second close was who is he asking. I explained to him we're just having our random morbid conversations. It turned out he was an American born Indian consultant and two minutes of distant shouting we exchanged our interests, if we were single, where the economy was going etc. As he left there weren't any afterthoughts regarding the BPO discussion but what lingered within us was do we have it in us to tie a stranger in a thread of conversation without any motives. Maybe its an individual personality trait, a function of our upbringing etc or maybe it is a cultural thing for us where we delve alot in privacy infringement thoughts.