Social Connections

Social Connections are very very very very important. I cannot type enough, "very" but it is true. 

I was at the ATM making a deposit. When I first drove up there was no one around so I did not put on a mask. Shortly after I started my transaction a woman walked up wearing her mask. She kept the safe distance and waited for me. 

After I finished she started talking to me. 

Shes said, "Hello there.  You have a beautiful smile."

At first I  though I was going to be shamed for not wearing a mask. Instead she told me that I had a beautiful smile. She said it felt so good to see a smile.  Her voice was sweet and kind.

Then she said, "Actually you are a beautiful woman."

I admit my heart soured. Coming off a week of work, feeling tired and exhausted, and this sweet masked lady connecting with me, a stranger. Why am I blogging about this today?  What is my point.  I told this sweet gal, "You are a delightful and joyful human. Thank you."  What she said next is beautiful.

She said, " We may be masked, and we may be ordered to social distance, but we do not have to stop social connecting."

I got into my car and smiled. I looked in my mirror and thought, "beautiful smile" indeed.  We have lost the smiles we see in people's faces with a mask. We are social distancing and involuntarily isolated for the fears of a virus. 

This woman inspired me. Social Connections are what we are born into. From the minute we are conceived, born, and life as we have known it our entire lives.