Subway...familiar faces

Yes, Moscow is HUGE. The population here is about 15 million people, those that are here officially, registered that is. Unofficially there is another 10 here, those are people like me who live and work in Moscow, but don't own an apartment, and therefore registered in another city (in my case I am registered in Taganrog, although I haven't been there in at least 3 years). So, you get the picture, in Moscow it's virtually impossible to meet a familiar face on the street. Yet, subway is a totally different story. I see familiar faces every day. No, I don't know these people, but I ride subway with them, and I am starting to recognize some of them. Every morning at 7:30 am when I get on the subway I notice at least 2 similar faces. I find it a little weird that these people and I most likely have nothing in common, we don't know each other and our lives have very different paths, yet every morning we have one thing in common for about 40 minutes--a ride on the same subway, in the same train car.

We are all the same. People are all the same, really. Some are old, some are unhappy, others angry, yet we all have something in common. It might be a small thing that does not mean much, but we all have something in common. I was just sitting on the subway this morning and thinking: strange, I might not know these people, but if something happens in the subway these strangers just might be the last people I see in my life (there were a few incidents of explosions/bombs in the subway a few years back when we were at war with Chechneya). No, I wasn't sad, just thinking that's all. Anyway, the point of this blog is that I find it amazing that with so many people in Moscow and trains that go every 40 seconds in the subway that I still find familiar faces early in the morning.