A Moment

The other day I was walking behind a girl on the way from Packard to Rauch- I was about ten feet or so back, and it ended up that we were going the same place. The result of this positioning was that when her phone rang, I got to hear pretty much the entirety of her conversation en route to our destination.

I normally wouldn't have tried to listen in on what she was saying ... she wasn't going out of her way to be overly loud or attract a lot of attention. It was what she said that really piqued my interest and had me casually evesdropping all the way to finance. The first two words were what really got me:

"Hi, Handsome."

She said those two little words with such sincerity and obvious feeling that, without knowing anything about her or the person on the other end of the phone, you knew she was in love. There was that lilting, that lift, that vague innuendo to her voice that belied not only the meaning of what she said but also the sincerity behind that meaning. I was glancing off in another direction when I first heard her speak up, but I could tell immediately that she was also smiling ... you can't say something like that, with that kind of emotion behind it, without smiling.

The conversation wasn't deep or philosophical or melodramatic in any way. She was just calling her significant other to ask how his morning had gone and see if he wanted to see her that night- nothing more. Brief but friendly responses were all that was shared between them for two or three minutes until finally she said, "Well enjoy your afternoon ... I can't wait to see you. Love you too. Bye."

I have a hunch that, even though her back was to me, she was smiling the whole rest of the way to Rauch.

There was a lot of crap running through my head the day that I saw this. My presentation, my last finance midterm grade, the systems project, the IBE paper, playing for Vespers- the list goes on. Not to say that I wasn't happy or that I was overly stressed, just that my mind was fully occupied (and running on less than an optimal amount of sleep). But hearing that conversation, seeing that connection for just a few minutes in time, and really witnessing just pure contentment, excitement, and happiness between two people ... it was beautiful.

Anyway, here's to yet another quick reminder that sometimes all that other stuff might not be so important, after all.

And ... here's to love.


For now, I'm off to Christmas Vespers. Wish me luck.