Stargirl; Cards

"All you need is your eyes and another person."
                                                                                         -Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl: a voice still speaking.

In the book Stargirl, she leaves anonymous cards. She leaves them for strangers, like they're friends. She learns things about them and makes the card they need. She also plays a little games. I want to tell you how to play, because playing it can change the world for you, or, make you laugh.

1.  Go to a public place. Make sure it's crowded. Better if it's a place like the mall so that there will be different places to move to.
2. Find a person. Just another face in the crowd.
3. Follow them and watch them for 15 minutes, no more no less.
4. Decide what card they need.
5. Don't send it.

This is good just as a game. For example say you went to a mall. You follow a women in jeans and a green sweater. She grabs a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks, then moves on to a pottery shop. She spends the remainder of the time there. While there, you notice how she lingers at the collection of handmade pottery by little kids made to be sold for a charity to help raise awareness for cancer. She acts very touched. Then she moves on to vases, she ignores all of the smooth classic ones, but pauses on a vibrant pink one. Her face lights up and she raises it to check the price, which you see, she hastily puts it down. 15 minutes are up!
From this, you make assumptions that aren't verifiable. That's why it's just a game. It causes you to read into peoples lives after just 15 minutes. None of it you know is true, but that's not the point. Neither is it to judge them. Even the happiest people can be given a card to make their day brighter, even if you don't know what it is. The point is to make you care.
So, based off watching the women in the green sweater, this is what you know. Her name is Alice, you read it off her Starbucks cup. She wanted to be an artist and pursued for a little while, but quit because it stopped paying bills. Now she works as a pharmacist. She pursued a career in health in medicine after her mother survived breast cancer. She's unmarried and in her thirties, you can tell because she lacks a ring. She still has college loans to pay, but has a spending problem that she's trying to over come. How can you tell all of this? You can't. It's not true. But what card would you give her. How about a Stay-Strong card? Or a Joy- isn't-Money card?
I've grown to like this game. I go to the park and play sometimes. I don't follow them, but I like to watch. I look at their clothes to guess what school they go to. I guess their age. I guess whether or not they have siblings, I guess what they're good at, what they ignore. I don't make the card or send the card, I'm completely wrong and know nothing about them. Still, I like to wonder what they need.
When was the last time you looked at a stranger and thought to yourself, "How can somebody make them feel like they are being hugged by the whole world?"