Kris, sounds like you had a run-in with someone who doesn’t see life as an unfolding mystery.
Oh the tedium of squeezing past the huddled masses sitting on the river bank watching the water thunder by, only to find a place to slip into the flow unnoticed. To me, I’m always open to the peace of just being near someone in their own flow, and nodding in unison at something beautiful and grinning at how much more beautiful it is than even ten minutes ago.