The People You'll Meet

Some of the people you meet say hi and others say hey. Then there are the people you meet and actually remember. The ones who didn’t seem to have a box they were confined to after the introductions happened. In many cases these people have become my best friends. Some of these people though I have never talked to since the initial introduction. They have, however, made a mark in my life. Who knows, maybe they don’t even remember me at all; maybe I was just another “hi” or “hey” person to them. But to me, they gave me hope. It is and was a kind of hope that shows me that not everyone is conforming and that there are people out there who are willing to show their true colors.

One hope that I have for myself is that I would not be a “hi” or a “hey person. I want to someone worth meeting. I don’t want to be forgotten; don’t want to sit back and let myself be forgotten. I am even ok with being one of those “hard to remember, yet impossible to forget people.” Sure I make have, do and will make a fool of myself at times, but that is living. I want to live, I want to soak up what this world has for me, I want to make memories (good and bad), and most importantly I want to learn. I want to learn about myself, the world and about others.

One last thing: I don’t want to make subconscious restrictions on who I allow myself to learn from. I want to learn from people from here, from my home town and from others from anywhere and everywhere. I want to learn from children, teens, young adults, adults and the elderly the same. Every single person has taken a different path from me. All I know is my path. I want to venture into the unknown. Undoubtedly, I will get hurt at some points and at other times I will seem like I am on top of the world. I won’t let the fear of getting hurt stop me. If my fear prevails I will only know the path I have chosen and never get to see new scenery. “It takes both sunshine AND rain to make a rainbow.”