I was thinking just the other day about the connections that people make on a daily basis ... and set aside, maybe as a "to do list". I don’t know, maybe it would go something like this.
1: went to the grocery store, while there met a man selling flowers (very sweet) ...I didn’t buy the flowers
2: went to bank, on the intersection saw a woman/man holding sign, said will work for food ... i needed my yard or garden done but again didn’t bother asking if he/she was hungry … I was too busy going to the bank
3: dropped dry cleaning off (it cost MUCH more than it would have to buy flowers, or feed a man/woman holding sign
4: went to work, on the way there saw little girl selling lemonade (one glass 75 cents) to raise funds for some charity or another, didn’t have time to stop, time is money you know
5: Got to work, opened paper … again nothing but bad news (as usual), threw paper in trash … face down.
6: went to morning meeting … they had pastries and coffee (the coffee cost much more than 75 cents)
7: got back to my office … GREAT!!!! I have to play golf (the message said) this afternoon with a client from Japan in hopes that our company will get his contract, they “want” me to “let” him win, witch of course he will because I don’t know what a “nine iron” is from a hole in the ground … no pun intended of course, I do know that the golf balls do actually go in a hole in the ground (or green, I think it’s called), but he’ll win nonetheless.
8: Went to golf “game”, couldn’t stand the client but played along anyway because it’s my job… We got the contract!!!! GREAT
9: Got back to office …. FINALLY!!!!! … Checked voicemails and messages from my secretary, threw away (or deleted) another bunch of messages from “Losers” looking for handouts … didn’t even bother listening to or reading them, they’d just be a waste of time.
10: finished my evening schedule, while leaving office … tripped over trash can, the paper sprawled out on the floor.
11: ANGRY!!! Started to crumple newspaper … then saw, on the back side, the obituary page …. {Insert name here} a man/woman that very much resembled me. The obituary listed his/her name as [insert name her], which is my mother’s maiden name …. He starved to death.
12: look at paper more carefully, it can’t be true … but it is, this is the evening edition, its already 11:00 PM, the man/woman holding a sign that said will work for food is … gone … I now know that he/she was my uncle/aunt … but no longer.
13: going to work the next day I of course did not pass by the man/woman holding a sign that said “will work for food”, but I did see the little girl selling lemonade again, and this time I did stop.
14: I asked the girl selling lemonade what charity her proceeds were going too, and she told me. “I wasn’t sure at first Mister, but I think that the money I make … I’m going to use to end hunger in America!
15: Bought much more glasses of Lemonade than she could ever have stores for. I don’t care about the worth of my portfolio now … it pales in comparison to the price of a “CUP” of lemonade
We make connections every day, I know that most of us (including me) on a daily basis, set those connections aside because they (on their façade) mean nothing to us. They have no connection to us … hah!! The person that I talked to the day before yesterday on the bus while I was going to work would “NEVER” have entered my thoughts again if I hadn’t looked at his shoes (yes … his shoes), they were the same shoes that my best friend in High-School used to wear … all the time, they were his favorite! But this man … that I had just met on a bus “stood” out to me because of his footwear, and I realized within myself that he was well worth “A Lemonade”, “A Flower”, “A Lawn Well Tended”, and of course … “A Meal”, because he is of course like me … “HUMAN” So do not set aside your “connections”, instead … embrace them, they may one day help you to embrace or … even save your life!!!
Again this has been another edition of Ryland’s Raves … Thanks for reading