Ethnographic study on my way to work

I have a new job and at the same time a new trip to work every morning. Three different vehicles with different profiles. The bus from Espoo to Helsinki was the one I took earlier also and as I am usually vividly discussing with my friend the whole trip I haven't had the time to observe anything. On the other hand my friend and I observe the bus driver as he is a good one and really polite in every sense. Rarely seen before. Anyway, nowadays I have to change to the underground and after that to the tram and at last I can see some diversity in this society. To only sit on a bus from Espoo to Helsinki and after that work with people interested in higher education could slightly distort your way of constructing the world, you know what I mean. I see different lifestyles, different representatives of ethnic groups, different ages and different gazes. Without trying to go more into the concept of "gaze" (if you want to read more turn to Kress & van Leeuwen, Lacan, Foucault, Schroeder or Jacobsson) I thought today on my way to work about people's eyes and their gaze. The eyes are the mirror of the soul, they say. What did I see? A lot of inward gazes and gazes that weren't directed outwards and even scared to do so. Try to get eye contact with people and see what happens. I have a feeling that we're so much into getting impulses from different devices (mobile phones, mp3-players and even books) that we don't have the time to see what happens around us. How many details do you remember from your daily trip to work, as a matter of fact? Even more worrisome is when you talk to people and you see that they look at you but then on the other hand they don't. Either they have a veil before their eyes or they stare at your forehead. Are people scared of looking another person in the eye? What could happen? You come too close perhaps. I think it's more about not being able to play a role anymore. Your eyes could reveal something about your vulnerability.