Interesting Drive

What a strange drive to work today. 

I am just minding my own business sitting at a red light in Shadyside when a rather well-dressed gentleman approaches my truck.  Now I am normally not a trusting sort, especially when dealing with strangers, but when prompted to roll down my window with the "universal invisible hand cranking motion", I just did it for a complete and total stranger.  Here is where things begin to get weird, I will try and attempt not to bore you will all of the sorted details but rather outline the happenings of the short lived conversation with this gentlemen.

The conversation seems to begin easily enough, with a quick exchange of "hello" and me following up with "what can I help you with?"  after all this guy waved me down and approached my automobile.  The man quickly states that he is not looking for any help at all but had a uncontrollable feeling that he needed to talk to me about something.  

He then proceeds to ask me if I am a happy person to which I default to my normal defensive nature and tell him that he is asking a total stranger a completely personal question.  The man apologizes for the question but insists that I think about it and moves on to the next interesting topic.  "Why did I put my window down when asked by a complete stranger?"  For the life of me in this day and age of car jacking, murder and god knows what else, I have no idea.  These situations are those that I usually would just ignore, wait for the light to change and go on with my day.  But for SOME REASON my window came down to prompt this conversation. I answer with the stock response "I thought you may need some assistance with something". To this response he just shrugs and begins to walk away from the truck.  He turns back around to me as the light changes from red to green as says.....

"Life is nothing but a series of decisions, these decisions shape your very existence.  If you decide to be happy and live life to the fullest, that is what is going to happen for you.  If decide not to roll down the window for the occasional stranger you will never know the full meaning of what life has to offer......Have a great day."

Like I said....a VERY strange drive to work this morning.


Maybe if we all rolled down our windows to assist each other now and again we would begin to feel better about who we are and what we offer each other as human beings.  After all in the grand scheme of things our life on this planet is simply a blip on a very large timeline.