some of you reading these posts know me personally from school. some of you we met on tinder when i was floating through your town. some we have connected over social media years ago. either way, everybody you meet leaves an imprint on this great thing called life..
when i was young i would make fun of my mom for always talking to the grocery lady behind the register. "mom, she doesnt care what you did today." i was such a bratty middle schooler and cringe looking at old facebook posts. but werent we all? (please say yes so i dont feel worse.) no wonder i got my door taken away for a summer for having a myspace in 6th grade. anywho, my mom always talks to everyone she meets and is so kind to everyone. i dont know what age i changed when i started to do the same as my mother. i love talking to the people at registers. asking them their day, what time they get off what, what they are getting into after work, asking their name. PEOPLE LOVE WHEN ASK THEM THEIR NAME!
im telling you you are your own favorite character. people love when others show an interest in their life. I KNOW I DO. so because of my mom i love people. (thanks mom!!) i love hearing their stories. i love meeting new people. i love meeting someone so random and having them become a life long friend. my best friends dont even live in the same state as me. i have met them on my internships and from growing up in different states. sometimes its hard because you miss them so much but there are sooo many people, great people out there.
talk to everyone. even though we all cant be indy blue, were all trying to live our best lives right? INDY BE MY FRIEND!! but be the person who says hi first, never know how the conversation will end. be the first to let go of a hug, you dont know if they really needed it. make someone feel good about themselves even if you think they dont wanna talk to you. if you think someone is pretty, tell them!! the other night i had the most flawless girl come into my work and told her just that and she became red as a lobster! she was breathtaking and I KNOW she has to get it all the time but it feels good every time to hear it no matter who you are. if you walk by someone who has a sick hat on, compliment them on it. they just might give it to you. (its happened to me before, its my favorite hat) what im trying to say is YOU DONT KNOW WHO YOU ARE GOING TO MEET!!!! remember how i said i got that really good job to the real estate broker? we met at my old job at the tanning salon back in high school. i told her i was interested in real estate and said she was looking for a trainee. literally got the job because we just chit chatted.
by chatting with alot of people you realize how small the world is. below i have thought of the crazy things that has happened because i have a talking problem.
lady from slc airport:
i was in the SLC airport waiting to board my flight back to alaska after surprising my family last June. i was waiting for my flight to board, eating a parfait, sitting on the ground, charging my phone. there was this older lady sitting right in front of me. i started chatting with because she sounded like she was from South Carolina. she was from charleston like me. she also used to live in long island like my dad and i tell her this and let her know that my family now lives in Utah though. and thats where her daughter lives. thats why she visiting utah, for her daughters wedding. fast forward to last week. i currently work in cariloha in San Francisco. i had a lady and her friend come in that are looking at socks. i start chit chatting with them. small talk kind of stuff. im asking her all the same questions too and the answers were very familiar to the lady from the airport. i tried to be not as creepy as possible asking her the question.. "do you remember meeting a girl in the salt lake city airport that was on the ground?" she says "yes and she was eating something!!" right then we realized we have met before... last year in utah and now in a bambroo retail shop in California. she gave me and a hug and we parted ways til we meet again.
rico in puerto rico:
when i was living in st thomas, me, the other interns and our managers decided to take a trip to puerto rico the weekend before my 21st birthday because why not? we were walking through the rain forest. i was in the back of the group and kinda dying because i am not a hiker. me and ash are like "if you wait for me, ill wait for you" lol miss you ash. we had a group of guys following behind us and with me being in the back i tried to flirt with them. Rico was the one who first started the conversation with us. asked the basic questions of where are you from? what yall here for? turns out rico from michigan and i have the same birthday, october 10th. we both were in the same little rainforest hiking to the waterfall and we both were celebrating our birthdays. me and rico still keep in touch and hype each other up when are in our new locations. YOU ROCK RICO!
shark diving instructor:
for sarahs birthday we flew from maui to oahu. we decided our adventure of the day would be swimming with sharks. the guides were awesome and fun!! later that day one of them followed me on instagram and when i read his bio it said something about ketchikan charter fishing co. (for those that dont know, ketchikan is a small small town in southeast alaska) thats where me and sarah were going next on our internship. so of course i decided to message him and ask what his relation is with it. turns out his step father owns the company and he was going up in may. so i just had to let him know that thats where me and sarah were moving in may!!! so for a month sarah, the guy i wont say what his name is, and i roamed all over ketchikan. our shark diving instructor from oahu who we never thought we'd see again was taking us fishing all over alaska. still in awh about this.
meeting my down the road neighbors in alaska:
i was working in delsol in alaska. it was the day after the utah and byu game. a group of gentlemen come in and they were wearing byu stuff so obviously i go over and say go utes!! all awkwardly laughing and i asked are yall from utah then?? and as we kept narrowing down where we live.. found out they live 1 minute from my house and know "high school lover" and his family. we are freaking neighbors but we met in alaska.. not utah... like what...
dakota on the plane with dad:
i was at little beach in maui. a kid named dakota came over and started to talking to us. turns out hes from cottonwood heights and his cousin was one of my good friends sophomore year. so we were from the same area and living in maui. we hung out a few times and so on. my family came to visit in may and on their flight back my dad is telling me how he was talking to this guy next to him from cottonwood heights and hes a painter. i ask was his name dakota? he doesnt recall, so i show him a photo. turns out it was the same damn guy!
alex from maui to sf:
i was on bumble and saw this scotty mccurry look alike, alex. total cutie. (told you you would be in it) we had a blast together while we both were living in maui temporarily. he left to go back to home aka san francisco in april. kinda thought that would be that last of it because i never saw myself in that neck of the woods. but cariloha offered sf to me and i couldnt turn it down.. we kinda have kept in touch over the past year, so last week me and alex met for drinks and met up again.
joe and the boys from st thommy:
on christmas in st thomas we made friends with two boys at the beach, cool guys! hung out with them the last two weeks i was there. i snap them and whatnot still. but yeah.. never thought id see them again either. but since utah is a highly popular skiing and snowboarding location. one the guys got a job in park city, 30 minutes from my house and then the other came to visit in december. since i was home then we got to meet up. small freaking world!!!!
SO MORAL OF THE STORY I NEED TO TALK TO MORE GIRLS!!! LOL LOL LOL after typing all of those i realize this. but anyway..
if you read all the way through i am proud of you and appreciate you. talk to strangers and think everyone is kind as shit. youre life will go alot better and so many more memories to fill it. if you have weird stories like mine above, I WANNA HEAR THEM!! send them my way :)
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