I didn’t used to talk to strangers, I do now, not to be preachy, it’s all because it’s what god wants me to do.
Like, I went into a gas station the other day, when i walked in, the dude behind the counter looked at me nervously and walked to his bookbag.
I went to get my drink and when i came back to the front he had his hand in his bookbag. Old me woulda been triggered cause i felt like he saw me and felt the need to arm himself.
Old me woulda felt a way, but new me, i saw that the guy was just really overall afraid, and i felt for him to have such fear in his life.
I put my drink on the counter and he tried to angle his scanner to scan it, but couldn’t get to the bar code. So I lifted my drink up to meet his scanner.
He then said, nervously, thank you, since covid, I don’t like to touch the top of peoples drinks when they buy them. Which I completely understood.
I told the young man, thank you for being considerate enough to think of my health like that. He nervously told me that he gets massages at some place around the corner..I know right, but he socially awkward.
I made an empathic statement and before I left, he told me god bless you. That made my evening. To not only be a better version of myself for god, but for bro to say god bless you after I did. Felt like god was thanking me for being better than my prior nature.