I have to write this down immediately. It might be choppy, and I may flesh it out further later, but it’s one of the most moving things that’s ever happened to me in my whole life.
This happened about 15 minutes ago while I was in the checkout line at Whole Foods.
I was checking out with my basket full of fruits and veggies and nuts and seeds and oat milk and healing foods. The checkout clerk was a young, slightly heavy-set woman with scraggly blue-tipped hair and that somewhat insecure look on her face, but we exchanged many pleasantries as she checked me out. We smiled at each other several times and as we were saying goodbye, she handed me my receipt and I looked her in the eye and thanked her.
Suddenly, the man behind me in line asked me if I am always this nice. I looked at him and smiled and said that I try to be and was just about to turn and walk away, but he continued…
“Not only that, you’ve been knocked down, too. And you’ve gotten back up.”
He was an older gentleman, maybe 15 years older than me - tall, gray hair and glasses that sat on the very tip of his nose. He was looking at me deeply. In most cases, I might have smiled and quickly walked away, but I looked back at him, right into his eyes and with true surprise, I asked him, “How did you know?”
He said, “I can just tell. You radiate it.”
I could feel my eyes start to fill with tears. I told him that yes, I had recently suffered a life-threatening injury…
The tears now brimming over the edges of my lower lids and I could hear the sweet cashier saying in the background, “Oh, now I’m going to cry!”
And he continued looking straight into me over those black-rimmed glasses, “I’m going to say one more thing before my wife comes over here and gives me the what-for: you’re going to be JUST FINE….”
And more, “…not only that, you’re going to be more than fine. You’re going to live the rest of your life and do more amazing things than most people will ever do.”
And with giant tears overflowing, I began to full on cry and thank this man, this total, sweet and wonderful stranger over and over and over again, “Thank you so much…thank you so very much…I can’t tell you how much that means…”
He smiled the most knowing and comforting smile I’ve ever seen, and I turned with my bags of groceries and my smooshed up crying face and walked away, absolutely knowing that there are angels among us.
xox,
GS
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