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Saturday, February 3, 2007
Luis
Life happens in moments. Time is used perhaps to measure moments. And time is necessary to get things done, like grocery shopping. But those chance encounters happen in moments. People literally flit in and out of others lives whether they stay for a bit or pass through. My kids and I had one of those moments in the most necessary of times.
Thursday was a wild day of meetings, basketball practice, a library trip we ended up missing, visiting with friends, gymnastics, and the dreaded trip to the grocery store. After a good visit with my friend (her daughter and mine are close and I just enjoy the time I spend with them - we always have a good laugh), it was time to pile my kids in the car and take the trip to the grocery store. I knew I would be there an hour, at least. It was freezing cold! I am driving a huge 4x4 as my economic minivan will get stuck in my driveway. So I park way far at the back of the parking lot and carry my two year old all the way to the store. At least he is warm!!!
Naturally, as we approach the store, my precious and strong willed child sees the racing cart. You know the ones; difficult to steer, dirty, basically behemoths of a cart that every child wants to ride in. I allow it, we are going to spend a lot of time here after all. He picks out the "blue" one, which really turned out to be yellow. (Colors will be our next lesson.) I plop him in the "car" and head off to get junk food for Sunday and healthy food for the rest of the time.
I tend to get very focused on what I am doing and forget to notice what is going on around me. My daughter happens to notice what is going on (when it concerns her) and has a hard time focusing on what is at hand. We turn up an aisle to get canned chilies (queso for the junk food on Sunday - yum), I notice that I went up the wrong aisle, she notices a man staring at her shoes. The mom of this young man (probably in his twenties) makes a comment about my race car driving son, we smile. The young man, Luis, introduces himself to my daughter. This is odd, but there is something about him that gives me pause to my initial reaction to any boy talking to my little girl.
"Are those Converse?" he inquires of my daughters shoes. My daughter has this throw back thing going on. I don't know why, but Converse she has. This young man was very excited to see them and talked about how popular they were in the eighties.
"Hi, I am Luis," he says as he sticks out his hand to shake hers. Then he says, "I have something for you." The mom quickly adds to me that he is getting a candy. Sure enough, he hands Actress a mint. And the mom and son walk off. Time stopped, chilies forgotten, a moment passed.
We continue on. Throwing stuff in the cart. Sending my poor daughter all over the store because I forgot to pick up stuff. Thinking of what I need to do next and hope I have the time as it is becoming obvious that I can't get everything I need from this one store and have to go to another store afterwards! Finally time to checkout.
I see in a short line where Luis and his mom are checking out. We get in line behind them. Luis comes up to me, "Hi, I'm Luis" and he holds out his hand. I shake it, giving him my name, and his mom reminds him that we have already met. He looks at my daughter and remembers. Then he and I have a conversation about a necklace I was wearing. It reminds him of Hollywood. Am I from Hollywood? No, born and raised in New Mexico. He loves New Mexico. He once lived in Florida, but prefers being here. Then he looks at me and opens his arms wide, "Happy New Year and God Bless you." What a caring young man. He gives me a candy and tells me that I remind him of a friend he had in junior high. "But I never went to high school, because I had an accident that caused a brain injury." Ahhhh, that explains his incredible forwardness.
After reminding him that my boys don't really need a mint, he tells me that his job in life is to make people happy. Moment passed. He and his mom head off to their car. I see him introducing himself to the bagger and gives her a candy. I just smiled. I smiled through the incredible slow checkout. I smiled all the way through the other store. I find myself still smiling over this young man.
Luis, may the God of time and moments give you many more opportunities to make others smile!
Thank you Luis's mom for allowing him to stop time and savor moments.
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Posted by Dana 
Sunday, February 4, 2007 - Hello!
Thankz 4 mentioning me!!
Lexi~~~