Just between you and me....

Mostly my problem at this current time is that I can’t concentrate. I’m meant to be doing an assignment. I’m supposed to be researching and writing and concluding about Research Proposals and Philosophies and Methods and I just can’t. I locked myself into my house alone all weekend and got a phenomenal amount of work done for college. I barely heard the sound of my own voice and I ate a lot but I got the work done. Now my momentum has vanished. I’m bored with hypothetical and explanatory writing and instead my mind keeps wandering to thoughts of the real world.

It’s funny. My Mum is the type of person that people come up to in shops or on the street to offload their problems. It may be people she doesn’t know at all or people she barely knows but they seem to want to tell her their woes. Perhaps she has a kind demeanour and a trustworthy face and an aura that radiates her undying selflessness and these people can just sense that she will give them the time of day and genuinely care about what they tell her. I think in some ways I take after her a little bit. I could only strive to be half as great a person as my Mum and I’d be happy, but sometimes people tell me things too. I’m perceptive. I sense things in people and tend to see past the exterior that people like to show. Maybe it’s because I’m not a superficial person and it’s what’s really going on  inside that interests me and attracts me far more than any show people put on. Like my Mum, I’d also always be incredibly respectful though. People reveal what they want to reveal and it’s not my place to make judgements or tell anyone else. I do care however and maybe that comes through too.

At the moment, though I can’t concentrate, I’m fine in my world; but there are others who I know aren’t fine right now. I was involuntarily exposed to their hurting but I was simply an ear who was there at the time and I respect that role. I can’t offer hugs or smiles or even acknowledgement but I still care. And that’s the way it is in this world I suppose. We have to stick to our own present and what our own lives involve but thoughts and prayers for others never go amiss either. Unless you’re like my Mum or me on the odd occasion, we could look at strangers and even people we think we know and never realise what’s really going on.

Doing college assignments and going about our own business is all very well but it’s nice to spare a thought or two for others.  I think it’s good to put as much love out there as we possibly can and maybe sometimes it just keeps floating but maybe sometimes it touches people and helps just a little.*

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