What if we start greeting our colleagues from openness, instead of our projections?

Last year, I spent some time in a meditation center in India. Here it is normal to greet each other with 'Namasté'. It means 'my soul greets your soul', while you put your hands together and bow your head a little. Maybe you recognize it from a yogaclass. Not that you have to go to either India or a yogaclass to realize the following... 

We are used to seeing the world through our projections: the ideas we have gained throughout our lives. Even if you meet a new person it is mostly not 'fresh', open. The tiniest features of someone put our mind to work. The clothing someone wears, the accent they have, and in the context of work: their jobtitle. Our mind instantly creates expectations. And this distorts the present moment, because the projections mostly happen before reality does. 

I sometimes greet people with 'Namasté' in contexts in which this doesn't 'fit'. Than we mostly laugh, because people find it a bit odd. Laughing in itself is a gift already, but the meaning behind 'Namasté' is what really sticks with me: greet each other from openness, not from expectations. Behind our masks we're all the same, and if we could only see what beauty is behind thát. 

So, based on my experience, you don't need to go to India, you don't need to do yoga, don't even put your hands together... but 'just' maintain openness while meeting the other. So much joy will come from that!