It isn't often you have the feeling of awesomeness dawn upon you! This December day awesomeness 'dawned' one early afternoon on a cold and freezing sidewalk. That made my day. No, made several days after that! So, we were working crazy hours - and couple of my colleagues were so glued to their seats that they grew roots and couldnt "uproot" themselves for the "lunch ceremony" as i would often term it for them. And since i would jump at any given chance to step out, i offered to go on the ceremonial walk and get lunch for them.
So i went in and ordered lunch - now the reader would be kind enough to note that it was three boxes of lunch in my hand, stacked one above the other and a glass of chilled iced tea in my hand that i sipped occasionally while walking because there was nothing else to do! And as i go about doing this nice balancing act and begin to think it's about time to hum or whistle a tune (not that i do a good job of it) the phone rings. Well, i have to now use my neck and trap the phone between the neck and the shoulder to talk as i balance the lunch boxes and tea and walk towards the office building.
And as i get into an animated discussion on the phone (now that i imagine, i would have been looking really funny! :D ...), i saw a lady approaching in my general direction and likely to cross paths. She gave a smile from afar or maybe she had a smiling face. But i noticed as she drew nearer she smiled more - errr, was she amused by my appearance. Like a juggler or something? Lunch boxes, iced tea, phone and the weird stance? Ahem! Was she... She smiled bigger as she crossed me and i heard the faint giggle as she walked past... and said, "My son would have loved to see you!.."
Now, now! I stopped dead in my track. I was like :-o ... (no, but i couldnt actually shake my head in that stance!..) did she just laugh at me? Was that supposed to mean that am a circus clown or something like that? I stopped and thought and was beginning to turn around to see. And that very moment she kept going a couple of steps and turned around too and with a warm, genuine smile continued, "He would have loved seeing you. My son, he likes super heroes :) ..."
if i were to use some fairness cream in my early 20s.. maybe.. just maybe, someone might have seen me blush at that statement :D well, i did sport a camouflaged blush :D ....and i replied with a grinning "Thank you..." and turned and walked the rest of the way smiling. I spent the whole day smiling.... in between, i also checked. i was still wearing all my garments in the proper sequence and order...A super hero? Gee!...and i thought she implied i was a clown or some funny looking guy....
...so often we interpret said and unsaid things (both spoken and written) in our own ways. We condition ourselves to be receptive to communication the way we like it. I was being called a super hero and i was thinking she was laughing at me. If i hadnt stopped.. if that lady hadn't stopped and completed, i would have spent all day thinking i made a fool of myself. That one statement changed it all. I was happy and in great spirits all day, all week and when i think of that incident now, it still makes me smile.
i am me. i am a super hero for someone. so are all of you! :)
So i went in and ordered lunch - now the reader would be kind enough to note that it was three boxes of lunch in my hand, stacked one above the other and a glass of chilled iced tea in my hand that i sipped occasionally while walking because there was nothing else to do! And as i go about doing this nice balancing act and begin to think it's about time to hum or whistle a tune (not that i do a good job of it) the phone rings. Well, i have to now use my neck and trap the phone between the neck and the shoulder to talk as i balance the lunch boxes and tea and walk towards the office building.
And as i get into an animated discussion on the phone (now that i imagine, i would have been looking really funny! :D ...), i saw a lady approaching in my general direction and likely to cross paths. She gave a smile from afar or maybe she had a smiling face. But i noticed as she drew nearer she smiled more - errr, was she amused by my appearance. Like a juggler or something? Lunch boxes, iced tea, phone and the weird stance? Ahem! Was she... She smiled bigger as she crossed me and i heard the faint giggle as she walked past... and said, "My son would have loved to see you!.."
Now, now! I stopped dead in my track. I was like :-o ... (no, but i couldnt actually shake my head in that stance!..) did she just laugh at me? Was that supposed to mean that am a circus clown or something like that? I stopped and thought and was beginning to turn around to see. And that very moment she kept going a couple of steps and turned around too and with a warm, genuine smile continued, "He would have loved seeing you. My son, he likes super heroes :) ..."
if i were to use some fairness cream in my early 20s.. maybe.. just maybe, someone might have seen me blush at that statement :D well, i did sport a camouflaged blush :D ....and i replied with a grinning "Thank you..." and turned and walked the rest of the way smiling. I spent the whole day smiling.... in between, i also checked. i was still wearing all my garments in the proper sequence and order...A super hero? Gee!...and i thought she implied i was a clown or some funny looking guy....
...so often we interpret said and unsaid things (both spoken and written) in our own ways. We condition ourselves to be receptive to communication the way we like it. I was being called a super hero and i was thinking she was laughing at me. If i hadnt stopped.. if that lady hadn't stopped and completed, i would have spent all day thinking i made a fool of myself. That one statement changed it all. I was happy and in great spirits all day, all week and when i think of that incident now, it still makes me smile.
i am me. i am a super hero for someone. so are all of you! :)
