~A Moment~

I was walking down the street the other day and I had a moment with a complete stranger. Now in this moment no words were exchanged, but it was one of those things where we both saw the same thing funny. Being that it's just winter in New York, it's starting to get cold and windy. During the winter people tend to bundle up to the point of creating their own environment inside their scarf and big hooded jackets. But on this day it was different. It was cold but I still had my hood down. There was this woman walking in front of me, and there was this big empty clear garbage bag that was blowing in back of her courtesy of the wind. So we're walking; Me, the clear bag, and then the woman. The entire way down the block the bag was following her. If she moved left.the bag would blow left. When she moved right.the bag moved right with her. You know that moment when you're by yourself and you smile thinking that no one is around you? Well this woman had one of those smiles goin on. But when she turned to look at the bag, she realized I was smiling with her at the situation. I thought that was intresting though, because that's a great metaphor for life. Sometimes were so wrapped up in our own little worlds, bundled in our "Jackets and Scarves" so to speak, that we miss the things that are going on all around us. And sometimes it takes something as small as a laugh with a stranger to remind us that when your down, you will always come back up.

Well you know what they say."When your down your really down. And when you're up you're really up". But it doesn't always have to be that way. I think one of the great parts of maturing, is understanding more than you did about life and how it works. When I was younger I used to get stressed out when things didn't go my way. I think we all can relate to that in some form. People deal with stress on different levels. But now when things aren't that great, I can take solice in knowing that as bad as it is or it gets, there will always be something to smile about, something to be positive about. Sometimes you just gotta take a step back and be content with the good things that are in your life, instead of focusing on the bad.

Do you believe?