4 August 2022

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CONNECTED

The other day I was checking my mailbox for mail - out through the front garden, to the front of our property.

The air was clear, the sky was blue with white fluffy clouds floating by in their own time.

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I took in a deep breath of the fresh air and looked down the sidewalk. 

 

There was  a man of an older age standing on the verge.  He was deep in his own thinking, then happened to look up the street in my direction. 

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Neither of us knew each other, neither of us knew why each was standing on the sidewalk.

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I called out – "a beautiful day.".

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He looked up and into my face and replied across the distance between us with a raised voice as well - "certainly is."

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We seemed to smile at each other then I said something else, he smiled again.

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Then something happened – the man started walking towards me. 

He felt connected enough to step forward.  He patted the dog, we chatted, we smiled.

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We realised we were close neighbours yet had not met.

When did that happen ?  That we didn’t know each other as a neighbour ?
How odd.

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I was filled with a humanness that was nice - to have initiated a smile on someone’s face. That I got to see and enjoy that smile and then truly connect.  My heart was warm.

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A car slowed down as it approached us on the road. 

It stopped a few houses down from the direction where the man had been standing when we had first connected.

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He quickly walked back, I suggest even with a skip in his step I thought, and ‘jumped’ into the car.

As the door closed I heard his voice say “Hi, yes, I was just having a lovely chat with my neighbour”.

 

Are you connected ?

 

Here’s to the wonderment of the true human connection.

Cheers, TS