A Journey Worth Revisiting

Yesterday I went to take some breakfast to some terminally ill men with my good friend and pastor, Eddie Young. On the way there, we were just shootin the breeze and the topic of people watching came up. We both love to people watch (sometimes he goes to the mall with his wife and they'll sit there for a while and just watch the people going by). I told him that I love to make up stories for people. For example, I wonder where that dude's been today, or hmm, what has her life been like? People are so amazingly complex and life stories follow in that same line. So not only do I love to people watch, but I also love to hear people's life stories. The journey of a life is one that is always worth revisiting. I think one of the aspects that most intrigues me is the idea that two people can be presented with very similar routes but end up very different. Or conversely, two people who grew up in very different environments can end up very similar. I love finding out that I've grown up in a similar circumstance as one of my friends and come out with the same results. One of the best things about knowing a person's story is that I get to interact with that person according to what I know about him/her. It's a huge asset to a friendship. The feeling of knowing someone so well that I can almost predict what they're about to do or how they'll react to something is a feeling that I cherish in life.