Connection doesn’t require unusual circumstances and serendipity. Often, it happens with a simple question.

How did you come to live here? What do you do for work? What sort of things interest you?

The questions themselves aren’t as important as the message they send: I’m interested in knowing about you.

And a question can turn into a conversation ... which might even turn into a friendship.

But it doesn’t start with us talking about ourselves. It starts with us being genuinely curious about someone else.