i had a beautiful experience today
afghanibanani: electricpencils: stweedy:
I went to Walgreens today to drop off a disposable camera to get exposed. There was a woman getting photos cropped on one of those touchscreen photo things with a Walgreens employee, and she was talking nonstop with her. “Oh there, that’s my kitty-cat. I love my kitty-cat more than anyone in the world.” That made me really sad because I thought she might be lonely. The employee was being really nice and smiling. “That’s my best friend. My best friend, he’s got almost a million dollars. He made a hundred thousand a year. But he’s not happy. I can tell he isn’t. People say I’m goofy. I am goofy, I’m happy, I got the bills paid. I’m poor and I’m happy.”
Then another employee person told her it would be awhile for the photos or something and she said “that’s okay, I got all night! I don’t got a date! Nobody wants me!” And she started laughing and she said, “I just like to make people smile.” And I was smiling and she looked at me and everyone was smiling. It was a beautiful moment, and she’s a beautiful person.
It reminded me a lot of this summer when we were in Denver, at a movie theater. We stood next to this guy in line, who was really very talkative and talked to my dad about a movie ticket thing or something. He sat in front of us in the movie, and laughed a lot to himself. I could tell that he probably sees movies by himself pretty often (he really seemed to know a lot about them), and like the woman at Walgreens I thought he was probably lonely and it made me sad. I told my dad when the movie was over, and he said something that really struck me, even though I probably already knew, deep down~~.
“Spencer, that guy’s happier than you.”
It’s funny, something like that doesn’t entirely sound like it should make someone feel better, but being an empathetical creature, it did. I like the world.
