Everything, Everything

On my way back from the shops, I was slowly catching up with two young women (as I tend to walk fairly quickly). Due to parked cars and a narrowing pavement, I thought I'd get stuck walking slowly behind them, but the brunette on the right was quite attractive so I didn't mind too much. It looked like she had a wedding ring, although it was hard to tell with her hand swaying back and forth. And as I came closer (with a couple of bags of shopping), she evidently heard me (or her sixth sense realised I was trying to see her ring finger), glanced back, and then moved to the side as she began to make a call on her mobile phone. As I walked past I looked across at her and she made eye contact with me, and I quietly said "thanks" with a small smile as I walked past. I'd like to think that in a parallel universe somewhere there's a single version of her and a clean shaven version of me that ended up swapping phone numbers. But I live in this universe, and all I said was "thanks" and this polite and attractive young woman is probably happily married to someone else. But at least her act of random kindness has renewed my faith in people a tiny bit, and encouraged me to encourage others to perform acts of random kindness. If you're not sure why I'm suggesting this, try watching Evan Almighty.