The StrangersI got on the bus thinking it would be like any other time I'd gotten on the bus. I was looking around the bus - as i do (i'm a huge people watcher
) The guy sitting across the bus from me had fancy shoes on - dress shoes almost - dress pants and a nice shirt. He was reading a tattered looking book. I'd never seen anyone like that before - not so young at least. A girl came on the bus, sat beside him and smiled. He smiled in response and put his book away in a plastic bag at his feet. There was nothing else in the back other than a few papers and a bottle of water. He started a conversation with her as we started to pull away from the College. Boy: You go to Mohawk?
Girl: Yah.
Boy: What're you taking?
Girl: Law and business
Boy: Wow - good for you! Is it your first year?
Girl: Yep
Boy: How's that going so far?
Girl: Good I guess, I missed two weeks over mid-terms so I'm falling behind. But I'll make it up somehow.
Boy: Oh - Why'd you miss so much?
Girl (she looked at him with a questioning look as to why he was so curious about all of this ... but found something comforting about the boy ... i could see it in her face): My Dad died. He had a brain tumor that nobody knew about. By the time the doctors found it - they gave him two weeks to live. I'm still trying to get through it because we were really close. He was the only person that I've felt really understood me.
Boy: I can't imagine something like that. It must me so difficult. Do you mind if I pray with you?
Girl: Yah.
Boy: What're you taking?
Girl: Law and business
Boy: Wow - good for you! Is it your first year?
Girl: Yep
Boy: How's that going so far?
Girl: Good I guess, I missed two weeks over mid-terms so I'm falling behind. But I'll make it up somehow.
Boy: Oh - Why'd you miss so much?
Girl (she looked at him with a questioning look as to why he was so curious about all of this ... but found something comforting about the boy ... i could see it in her face): My Dad died. He had a brain tumor that nobody knew about. By the time the doctors found it - they gave him two weeks to live. I'm still trying to get through it because we were really close. He was the only person that I've felt really understood me.
Boy: I can't imagine something like that. It must me so difficult. Do you mind if I pray with you?
I know this guy sounds like a total pusher - but he wasn't - he really meant everything he said. It was almost as if he could see this girl needed help. She was hesitant to accept, but she did - there was something about this stranger that she found comforting and trusted him. (yes - i saw all of this .... told you i was a crazy people watcher ..... but this really intrigued me).
He took her hand between his and started praying to his God for help and guidance for this girl through her time of loss. At first she looked around a bit - laughing awkwardly. But as the boy continued to pray for her, she looked down at their hands and started to cry. Only this wasn't just crying --- it was a release. As if everything she ever felt, every tear she ever fought back, all of it came rushing out at once. He didn't react - as if he was expecting it - all he did was tighten his hands around hers. I've honestly never seen anything like it before - she just disintegrated in front of him. The intensity of the moment completely overwhelmed me - and I was just the witness. After the prayer - he gave her a chance to calm down while he explained his story.
" About six months ago my mother told me that my father wasn't actually my biological father. I know it's not the same as your loss - but I lost a lot of trust. She gave me the name of who my real father was and I went through a rough time. Heavy into alcohol and selling drugs. I did everything I could to get away from the lie - I felt as though everything in my past 18 years of life had been a lie. So I ran away. I took a sleeping bag and a bunch of pot and just ran. It was the coldest night of my life - but I realized that all I had to do was walk away. I could, at that moment, leave my old life behind and move on. I stayed with a friend for a week or so while I tried to contact my father. I eventually got through to him and he agreed to take me in. He taught me a lot in six months. I started going to church with him and it really opened my eyes."
I had just witnessed two completes strangers open their lives to one-another. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen. The girl explained that she'd had no one else to talk to anymore because her Mother had become an alcoholic and her brother left ... it seemed he was in the right place at the right time. I am by no means a religious person - in any way. But I was raised believing and still strongly believe that everything happens for a reason... and this was a perfect example. I've been left wondering what I will take away from this ... what effect will it have on me? I can't help but feel that I was supposed to hear that conversation...
So think me crazy or whatever you will - But I wanted to share this interesting piece of my day with you.
Here are some pictures from fellow DA members that I feel are related.
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- The Way of the Samurai
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Oh how I wish for soothing rain
All I wish is to dream again
My loving heart
Lost in the dark
For hope I'd give my everything
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You run into people because you are meant to. Even if its not clear why at the time. Things happen that make you question your faith, your beliefs. And they make sense eventually.
I spent my childhood and teen years wishing to have my father more actively in my life. And when he was, I saw him for the a-hole he was. There was a reason I didint have contact with him till I was older.. It would have destroyed me. Hell, as an adult it nearly did... But people and things pushed me to move away and on with my life. I like to think it was an angel of some sort pushing certain things my way, helping me see him for what he was.
This girl found her angel. This boy had found his, and was able to save her. We may not know from what, but he was there for a reason. You, were given perspective, hope, and the wonderful feeling of "the world isnt all bad"....
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It took me back to last week..
I was walking home from school, texting, when i heard some fumbling footsteps trailing behind me. It turned out to be Gerardo, the new senior from Mexico. We'd never spoken before, only seen each other in the coffee lounge at school or passed each other in the hallway. I assumed he'd keep on walking past me, but what actually happened really took me aback. He said "Hi, how are you?"
He walked me home, and then said "See you tomorrow, Amy"...as if we were now good friends. This may not be even half as odd as the occurence you described, but it provoked the same feeling inside me that says "the world isn't all bad.."
It just proved to me that there are people who care whether they're supposed to or not, and who are friendly without any reason.
Thanks, I appreciated this lift =]
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You lean in close and say something sexy like, "I might go to bed I've got work in the morning." I know what you're trying to say baby. You're trying to say, "Oh, yeah. Its business time. Its business time."
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