I witnessed onece how approaching people with genuine openness helps. I was in Aix-en-Provence (south of France) and got lost on the outskirts of the city. I w

I witnessed onece how approaching people with genuine openness helps. I was in Aix-en-Provence (south of France) and got lost on the outskirts of the city. I waked into a "cité", which is a large area of block of flags, poor and full of drugs and angry people. I walked to a group, the tension was obvious but I kept on walking and approched them with a simple question about how to get to downtown, and (most importantly), what THEY think is the best way to get there. A normal person talking with normal people. Not only they showed me the way (after arguing about the best one for 10 minutes) but hopped into a car to drive me there. Sometimes treating peooke genuinely kindky goes a long way.