Furniture to be moved and failure to be dreaded. But that's not what I'll be talking about this time. It's something far smaller and yet far larger: Human emotions.
This happened on Friday:
I was in comp sci class, but I forgot my memory stick so I went back to the dorm to get it, which took me somewhere in the vicinity of 20 minutes. When I returned some more people from my group had shown up for class including Anton. (I'd call him a friend but it's far to early to go haphazardly declaring friendships with random (or not so random) people, but we're well under way in that direction., anyways...) when I entered the room his face lit up. though I'm not very pleased about the implications of such a reaction, it was a marvelous change. You often see this referenced in books, when someone beholds a long missed face. and I, personally, have never given much thought to it I imagined nothing major, a pleasant smile at most, a friendly exclamation. Yet it's so much more. It's a display of genuine gladness, stronger precisely because of its wordless nature. It's impossible not to respond in a like fashion to something like that and it's impossible to mistake it for anything other than what it is.
I wish all of you will see such a sight in your life. It's warm.
Awwwwh that is so cute, and sweet, and awesome! ^ ^
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I was also thinking about that over the past week (since it was Thanksgiving break I reunited with a lot of awesome people). Regardless of the meaning behind that sort of expression (romance, friendship, etc.), it's always amazing how a person's simple, real expression can affect you. I liked how you touched on it's "wordless nature," because that's so very true.
ReplyDeleteAnd good luck with the furniture!