My dear friend,
How are you? I hope this letter finds you well. Me? I’ve been working a lot and it has been fascinating. No, not the work–the hallways! Yes, I’m finding the people in the hallways both intriguing and heart-warming. You see, my office is located in a large building that shares entrances, corridors, and a cafeteria with a large training center for the local hospital. So the people I encounter in the hallways are ever-changing-wide-range-of-humanity.
I think my favorite part is listening to the snippets of conversation be it between to or three folks getting that coffee or overhearing the single side of a cell phone conversation. I hear about family and friend and the things that are happening in their lives–especially health issues! Oh my, people love talking about health issues…not clinically but personally. Describing symptoms, durations, and most of all, worries.
But it isn’t always the conversations that catch my attention and heart. It is the gait…the way each person walks down our oh-so-long corridors. Some poor souls have the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Each person I pass has a life story carried in their hearts telling of worries, past injuries, hopes, and joys. Each person, regardless of their appearance, is in their own world of human experience. And I am honored to witness–and sometimes encounter-each uniquely made creation and the life, love, and memories in them.
Honestly it makes my head spin to think about it and experience this. All in one office building. I feel so rich living in the diversity and differences that are brought into my life each day.
We are leaving this particular office building in a few months. Our lease is up. This makes me sad. I fear that in the new building, I won’t have this richness of humanity that I have here. So, for today, I drink in the encounters, the overheard conversation as a part of the lives of others find their ways into my heart.
I hope you get to encounter others too in your daily life. So, until we meet again, please take good care of your wonderful human self.
Joyfully,
Tivesse
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