I car-pool with the age to UNR every now and then. Sometimes our schedules conflict and I am left sitting around for an hour or two. Yesterday as AJ was in his sweet guitar lesson I sat outside. Listening to my MP3 player I realized that watching people is really fun. I'm listening to my music so I don't get to hear what parties are going on, how much they drank last night, who hooked up with who; I get to look at people in a whole different light and not who THEY think they are. Instead, I get to look at faces and you should try this and you will find amazing things. In peoples faces and movements you can see wisdom, fear, anger, confusion, and all sorts of emotions that people try to hide behind words and every day actions. You get a completely innocent view of who somebody truly is. I feel like I have more of a connection with people when I look past all the words and the false claims and try to look deeper than the surface.When I used to work at the comedy club I would sometimes talk to the comedians while I am cleaning up after the show. One of the times I got into a conversation with a comedian about religion. He said something that kind of stuck out to me, that "I try to look at people through God's eyes, not try and look at God through other peoples eyes." The first part of this is interesting to me because it is so difficult to do. Looking at people through Gods eyes is pretty much impossible. Extending that much love to people is tough. This whole time I was waiting for 'The Age' when God was trying to say I want you to wait on the age. As a Christian I am suppose to love and serve(wait on) others. What did Jesus do when he knew he had a few hours left to live? Washed peoples feet. What would you do if you had one day to live? Go to DisneyWorld?
"The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7
Loving people is hard for me sometimes, but I realized that I need to look paste humans worldly attempt to be "cool" and try to look at what God sees in them to love them so much. Its hard to find sometimes, but I put my headphones on and I got a little closer.
6 comments:
nice job Sr. H. I enjoyed your viewpoint - literally & figuratively. I'm taking a class on "Nonverbal Communication" that demands I do just what you suggested. What say we set up a time & people-watch? You bring the popcorn, I'll bring the beverages, & we'll leave our self-righteousness & judgment behind.
no:el and i enjoy people watching also. i don't think i have ever been as observant, thank you, great insight.
when me & mindy go out in public (not very often)we get a good cup of coffee, a comfortable seat, & watch away. i kid you not. this is great fun. this is an insightful post. most people, have masks they wear & change them according to the situation in which they find themselves. i "used" to do the mask thing everywher i went. the lack of authenticity was lost on insecurities. now that's sad.
"the lack of authenticity was lost on insecurities". I said that wrong.
the lack of authenticity was due to being controlled by my insecurities.
I once got arrested for people watching...But they called it something else.
I'm not stalking you, I'm just calling a lot.
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