i don't know if anyone still reads this.
i've been taking a blogging break.
mainly because i got a little bored and felt repetitive.
i feel like i've been so busy.
so much has been going on.
i started working at AutoSpa Car wash.
it's perfect,
because it's RIGHT next to my apartment complex.
i can leave at 8:58 and be to work by 9 am.
what a groovy setup.
i'm the cashier,
and i work tuesdays and thursdays from 9 am to 6 pm.
it's a long shift,
but it's nice that it's twice a week and out of the way.
i feel so blessed, so much.
it just amazes me how my life just works out the way it needs to.
i am overwhelmed when i think about how much i have.
i've never had a problem finding a job.
i literally walked into the car wash and was given the job.
i was looking to work tuesdays and thursdays, and they were looking for someone to work those days.
how do i have so much?
why do i have so much?
here i am.
in the most perfect time of my life.
living my dream that i carried my entire senior year.
all i could do was think of THIS moment.
right now.
and here i am.
here i am living on my own.
going to college.
buying my own groceries.
laughing with friends.
gaining experiences.
and able to meet extraordinary people everyday.
i've always been a thinker.
i think a lot.
and today i've been thinking so much about PEOPLE.
we're amazing, truly.
i mean, everyone has a story.
everyone has a past, and a future.
everyone IS good.
i mean, i don't believe that anyone wants to be or do BAD.
everyone has struggles.
everyone has accomplishments.
but we're all just people.
simply, people.
and sometimes i take people for granted.
the people driving by me in their cars.
the people i pass in the grocery store.
the people that have lives and amazing stories.
sometimes i forget that we all have something to say.
something to convey to others.
we all have pieces of ourselves that are left with people.
and others leave pieces of themselves with us.
if we take the time to realize it.
that's one reason why i feel blessed.
i am able to work at a cashier and take people's money.
that's what the job is.
but, it's so much more.
my job is to gather the pieces of people and keep them with me.
does that make sense?
probably not, i have a very strange mind.
but that's how i'm looking at it.
my job is to truly learn about the people that come into AutoSpa.
not as customers.
but as people that can teach me something.
today i did not want to work.
i was EXHAUSTED.
so tired.
and to be honest, working was the last thing i wanted to be doing.
and then i remembered a quote i recently heard.
it goes something like,
"every day can be either a good day, or a bad day. but....at the end of the day...the choice was yours."
oh, how i love that.
so i made sure to make it a good day.
i learned a lot from people today.
i learned patience from the man that had to wait for me to figure out the cash register.
and then had to wait forever for his car to be washed, because the washer broke down with his car in it.
i learned about a woman named jan who recently moved to Paradise, Utah
and has a fitness machine that she absolutely loves. i learned about the benefits of using the machine, and gained a friend in the process.
i learned how wonderful love is at all stages of life,
by the old man and woman who came in and were playfully interacting with each other.
the man shook his keys from across the room for a good ten minutes with a smile on his face,
right at his wife, who was perfectly content finishing her magazine.
i laughed the entire time.
it was adorable.
i learned that it's okay to open up big parts of your life to total strangers,
if the moment calls for it.
i learned this from the beautiful woman that mentioned a small detail of her life with me.
she casually told me that her daughter had just been severely burned last week.
i talked to her a little bit about if, and noticed that she really opened up to me.
she told me some personal experiences she had gone through,
and they were STRANGELY similar to my own.
i explained that i UNDERSTOOD her.
and she cried.
she said that she had been needing to hear those words.
she had been needing to realize that she was not alone.
and we talked about life.
she told me all about her life.
how she's 37 and has 7 kids.
she was married at 18.
she has always driven a crappy car, so she recently decided she would buy a brand new sports car.
she has always wanted one.
she told me that she loves making payments for it, because she WANTS to.
she loves it.
she's going back to school.
and works full time.
i felt like this woman's conversation with me taught me more than she will ever know.
and as she left,
she put her hand on the counter and just stared at me in the eyes.
as if saying, your soul just touched mine. you are my friend.
and then she whispered, "thank you."
how amazing is this life?
how amazing is it to know that we are all the same.
what a wonderful thing to know.
this has been a very deep post.
congrats if you read the whole thing.
love love love you.
whoever you may be.
you are my friend.
xoxoxoxo
