Big and Small

The other day I was having a coffee at a coffee shop in San Diego, sitting in the sun (yay!) at an outdoor table. During the twenty minutes or so I was there, I noticed two homeless people. 

The first was a gentlemen who came walking down the side walk with a cane. As he walked, he sang and banged his cane into most everything he came across, including the statue in front of the hotel next door. He even engaged in an argument with said statue, emphasizing his points by hitting it with the cane. People moved a significant distance away from this guy, who occupied a huge amount of psychic space. 

In contrast, the second guy I saw sat cross-legged on the sidewalk, head down looking at the ground and generally making himself seem as small as he possibly could.

I was struck by the contrast, and am sure that there was some meaningful lesson to be learned from it, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. 

So I'll just note it here as something of interest.