I sat
down for coffee tonight and ran into an old classmate.
Remember
how I can talk to anyone. Well, that is what we did. We talked. It was nice to catch up, to reminisce about our shared
class. It was nice to see who we still remembered from school and who we had
completely forgotten.
I
think too often we have a fear of talking to people we don’t know. We didn’t
recognize each other until after we started talking, and then realized our
shared connection. If we hadn’t taken
those first few sentences to introduce ourselves, we might have never known.
Everyone
has something to share. The other night one of my coworkers told me about how
she helped a little old woman carry her groceries home from the store and spent
the walk talking to the woman. I thought about how cool that was of her, and
also how rare. How often do we get the
chance to meet someone and know them, only to let it slip through our fingers?
So,
friend I met tonight, I hope I’ll see you here at Starbucks again. (If she’s
anything like me, she’ll stalk me on facebook when she gets home tonight and
see my blog. Hi!)
Challenge
to my Readers:
Share
the journey. Talk to strangers. Don’t take their candy though, that’s mean.
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