I was given a reminder this morning of how mankind continues on hopefully, despite circumstances that scream at us to give up. IHOP on Mothers Day in Corpus Christi, Texas was a madhouse of balloon-sword wielding children, overlipsticked mothers, and waiters who literally sprinted from table to table, hurriedly rushing out "Happy Mother's Day" to no one in particular before taking orders.
The slowest moving of the waiters was a heavyset black girl with three colors of hair, who ambled from table to table, rushed by no one, refusing to notice the chaotic scene surrounding her. As I gazed at her nonchalant demeanor, which was set off even more by our tattooed Latino waiter with a bandaid on his friendly face (the classiest of Mothers Days, this was not) who spoke quickly and moved even faster, I noticed her eyes.
They were lidded with the thickest, longest false eyelashes I had seen outside of the Greek system on Halloween.
I whispered to Uncle Dave that I thought her eyes were a perfect example of how amazing humans can be. Humans can get up for work at a stressful, low-paying job serving people who tend to barely look twice at you and still take the time and energy to put on the fancy lashes. God Bless Us, Every One.
1 comment:
well missy, here we find that perception is essential to observation. i appreciate the optimistic view of such detail in the womans attire, but maybe its the cause of her attitude, or part of the ritual that holds her life together. much grimmer ideas can be as well connected to it, thus i enjoy the perhaps pureness of your thoughts!
un carinioso saludo!
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