Just this last Thursday, I went to Lawerence with a couple of friends to go to the Granada and go see Underoath. We had been gone inside to buy tickets for the concert before the box office closed. We were just chatting up a storm with the other people waiting to purchase a ticket. It was just fun, we had really sparked up a conversation with one of the girls.
Then we thought, hey why not, let's invite her to hang out. So we did, and she gladly came. Sadly, I look at my life and I would think, if I just met someone for no longer than five minutes, I don't know if I would just grab my stuff and hang with them, even if I didn't have friends around.
But it was just to great to walk, hang out, be ourselves. Be myself without being judged. Weird, I feel like I am going to get judged so much more from my church, and that's another blog for another day. But it was sad to hear that her lease just came up and she was working only on the weekends at a local restaurant, and was pretty much couch hopping. Even though I was, you know, sad. She didn't seem sad at all. It just mainly seemed like she was taking life one day at a time and enjoying every minute of it.
Now that is a real example of one of my favorite quotes, "a stranger's a friend, I haven't met.'
She truely lived that way. After dinner, we went to wait by the door of the concert and well, let's just say she knew alot of people just walking down the street. She just had a likable personality.
And you know I thought on the way home from the concert, if we, my friends who are chrisitans, had any influence on her, by our lives. And yet the more and more I think about it. She taught me a lesson.
She taught me to really, I mean REALLY enjoy life to fullest. Taking it one step at a time, minute by minute, but really loving every minute of it. Even if it is tough and you have to couch surf. Even if it means living paycheck by paycheck, or not even know what tomorrow might bring. Enjoy the now and what's in front of you. That's all that matters.
I mean I have heard it multiple times, what if that smile or that hello changes that person's life. Even if it is ever so slightly. But just a simple acknowledgement would show that there are people that care, or even someone's life. I have heard that someone killed themself, but said if someone smiled or waved or acknowledged them, they would have not done it.
So I challenge you. Enjoy life. Enjoy what's infront of you. For it says in the Bible, 'do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about it self..'
So Enjoy life. Make a new friend. Talk to someone. Really listen to what they have to say.
