All of my life I have had strangers come up to me and start conversations. I really don't mind and I have learned that it is just a fact of life for me. My family and I have always gotten a kick out of the way I attract strangers. I have often asked if I have a sign on my head or back that says something like, tell me your troubles I care, or free therapy just start talking, that one is my favorite. But one thing they all have in common is that they seem to walk away feeling better and I walk away feeling confused. Now that I have given my life to God I have questioned whether it was His design to put these people in my path for a reason. After all He is the one that made me to listen and hear what these people need to say to someone. Sometimes I wish he would give me the words to say to them, but so far it has just been enough for me to listen and then let them walk away leaving me standing there wondering what it was all about. Like I said I really don't mind listening but when they start to do my shopping for me I do get a little flustered. I have had one woman come up to me when I was shopping for new things for the kitchen and start taking things out of my buggy and replacing them with items she thought I would like more. How could she know what I would like more? She had never met me and had never seen my kitchen! Still I continued to let her and listen to her story as she did this and when she walked away I put everything back and bought what "I" liked.
I once had an elderly man come up to me and start to tell me about his wife of 60 years passing away a year before and helped me pick out paint colors for the inside of my house. Again had never met this man and here he was telling me about a very personal and painful time in his life and helping me pick out colors, without my asking, for my home.
Friends would call me and ask advice about relationships or tell me details that I did NOT need to know. Did this ever get old? Oh yeah! You bet it did, but they were my friends. I will admit sometimes I would just give the standard answer that went something like this. "If you are so miserable why would you keep dating _______?" Fill in name of person in question. Or, "You knew he/she was like that before you got married so live with it."
Ok, so I'm not so good in the advice business, but the people that come up to me now just want company and a way to vent. If it helps them and they aren't holding me a gunpoint to listen what is the harm? Oh, and I don't give these people advice. For goodness sakes I don't know them. Haha
I should have become a psychologist.
Have a blessed day,
Tammy
