A Hug From A Stranger

Bring on February because January was like a nightmare awake. Am I right? Or am I right? I am a glass half full kinda girl but I will tell you this... The devil did the Cha Cha slide all over my life this month. slliiiide to the left...sliiiide to the right Criss Cross!! I mean I could not catch a break to save my ever loving life!! It all started when I decided to be a good Samaritan and get my physical done early at Kaiser. As I was standing in line an older gentlemen decided to sneeze into the air. The sneeze did a triple axle off his tongue and onto the back of my neck. Two days later I began hacking up my lungs, appendix and possibly my uterus. I ended up using all of my sick days and to this day I still have a cough and a smokers voice without being a smoker. Not long after that, my car got broken into and my work phone got stolen. Now anybody that knows me fully knows that my anxiety used to be really bad. When my car got broken into, I had a full on panic attack. I slept with a pocket knife under my pillow for days because I started to fear that whoever broke into my car would be ballsy enough to creep up in my house so I had to be ready. The panic attack brought on irritability and I was not my normal chipper self and lastly I found out that the "nice guy" I was dating was indeed, not so nice. Another one bites the dust! Still through all of the weird events of this month I continued to pray. No lie, some of those prayers were mad aggressive with a DMX tone but still.. I prayed. So fast forward to today. On my lunch break I decided to go get a green juice. As I parked my car, I noticed a woman on her cell phone crying profusely. She fell to her knees and wept. People walked by and acted like she was not even there. I sat in my car for a little bit and prayed for her. I didn't know what news she received but it was enough for her to cry in public and I felt nothing but sympathy. I went to order my juice and I asked for napkins. As they prepared my juice, I went outside and gave the woman some napkins for her tears. She looked at me with tears streaming down her face and hugged me for two minutes straight. 30 seconds in, I realized that I needed that hug too. As I drove back to my job I started to count my blessings.Yes, I spent most of this month being sick but my bones are strong and I don't have a life altering illness. Yes, my car got broken into but I have a car and lastly yes, I wasted a little time on a bad guy but at least I didn't marry him. Life is actually pretty good. So even though I came to this epiphany two days before the end of the month, the truth is the glass is always half full. No matter what. This is LA so I don't suggest hugging strangers but it just so happens that homegirl hugged the right one. I'm from Atlanta. We hug, drink sweet tea and keep it real!