Since an incident that occurred just over a few years ago and other occasions since then, I seem to have lost my faith in people quite a bit, not with specific people but just people, humans in general. Saying this however, there are these rare moments when I hear about something or read something online that just astounds me, in a good way, and manages to bring back some of that faith.
When reading things online or hearing things in the news, these incidents always seem to be big unexpected things that make you think, there really are just great people out there. In my everyday real life though, I've been noticing that these rare moments don't actually have to be big unexpected gestures, with thousands of people witnessing whats happened, but can just be small everyday things. For instance someone holding the elevator for you and then smiling back at you when you say thankyou to them for holding it, it might be a bit sad to say but these moments can often be the highlight of my day.
Why I'm saying all of this is because this evening I went to go meet an old friend of mine for a drink so we could catch up because we hadn't seen each other in a while, and this to me seemed like one of these rare moments.
We grabbed a few drinks, went to go grab a seat and then being old friends, we instantly jumped back into conversation, right where we left off from last we saw each other. Just sitting there chatting about new things going on in our lives, new endeavors that we were both about to begin and recalling up old funny events from our time in sixth form, made it feel like for an hour I was my proper self again, happy, optimistic, and with a strong sense of goodness in the world. This rekindling of faith was even showcased to me as whilst we were sat there some guys came over to ask us something and they turned out to be nice polite guys, having a good time out and they even went off thanking us and wishing us a good night.
I'm not quite sure why I felt like this tonight, maybe just the effect of seeing a familiar face, or because being with old friends tends to revert you back to the school years type version of yourself, in any case having such a good hearted person to chat with definitely helps. Due to not seeing my old friends that much anymore, it is always really nice bumping into them or having a quick catch up session and is something that I'd wish would happen more often.
Hopefully I don't sound to sad or depressing here, if anything I actually want to get across some message of positivity, to remind people that you don't have to save the world to be good, as they always say 'good things come in small packages'; just hold the door for someone, help pick things up when someone drops something, smile at someone who looks to be having a rough day, just do something, you never know you might be making someones day.
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