Good Things

Good things don’t come always, but they do always come.

I don’t know why I’m realizing this right now. Probably because life has been so hard for me lately. Today was especially difficult. Teaching was hard because I still have no idea what I am doing, even though I’ve been studying for this for 4 years. Talk about discouraging. Not only that, but, as petty as it is, I forgot my phone at home. It turns out I actually needed it today. I left home thinking I had to pick up my mom from work, drove half an hour to wait for another 10 minutes, realizing she probably had already left. So I drove the other half hour home with a blistering headache and a growling stomach to come home to missed calls, emails, voicemails, and an inconceivable amount of texts. Needless to say, I was in a horrible mood, frustrated beyond emotion, and ready to take a nap. Instead, I listened to the voicemail (surprise, surprise, my mom didn’t need a ride home), and started on the texts.

Here’s bright little light number one. A friend of mine had sent me a text, a response from one I had sent yesterday. Tacked on to the end was a simple, “have a good day at work.”  Those few words instilled a feeling of hope in me, a reminder that there are people supporting for me, rooting for me to succeed and achieve my dreams. I realize I had lost sight of my friends, and that I needed a humble reminder that people care about me, and I should just accept that.

Bright little light number two came as a couple of guys from church that I don’t even know came over to visit with my family. I have never spoken to them before, and they didn’t know anything about me. I realized as we all shared movie quotes and my parents told the story of how they met that honest human interaction is incredible. Sitting down with these strangers, knowing that they came over to make sure my family was living comfortably and happily, and being able to have a sincere conversation with them seemed to restore my faith in the world. People can care, and some people do—care about others without knowing a single fact about them. When these two men showed interest in my family’s well-being, they brought me the joy of unadulterated camaraderie.

Good things do come, and they came today in the form a few glorious human beings.