Met a truely beautiful person today at work...
By sabbatha
@sabbatha (287)
United States
September 12, 2008 10:50pm CST
I'm not talking physical beauty but a truely beautiful soul. She was this wonderful 74 year old lady, who got me laughing and feeling great.
I was working in the juniors department and she was there and stopped at a rack of booty shorts (really short shorts) and started laughing. I was working on a rack right next to it and she came over and told me why she was laughing. She just pictured herself putting those on for her husband and started laughing. I said he'd probably love her in them! She said "Yes, but he'd probably have a heart attack."
She then started taling about how you should always be young at heart and always laugh and look forward to life even when you get older. Only the one above knows when you are going to keel over so always look forward to living not to death. We had a great conversation and it was truely a blessing from the attitude filled people we usually get in Walmart. Made my day. I was kind of down and she just cheered me right up for the rest of my shift. Truely an Angel.
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@Sheepie (3112)
• United States
13 Sep 08
That's really wonderful! I'm glad to hear there are people like that around. I really hope there will continue to be more people like that because they are so rare. Maybe I'm going to be one of those people one day! It's a great thing to look forward to.
@sabbatha (287)
• United States
13 Sep 08
It was especially wonderful to run into someone like that at work. Most of the customers we get are...well...Ghetto. They tear everything apart, steal and have huge attitude problems. Not all of them. But quite a bit. She was a gem for sure. Plus it also seems that quite a few older people get so bitter about life and she is definately not bitter!
@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
13 Sep 08
I was kind of down and she just cheered me right up for the rest of my shift. Truely an Angel.
And, that is why she was in the juniors' department at that very moment.
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@elisa812 (3026)
• United States
13 Sep 08
That's so sweet! That definitely would have brightened up my day, too. lol It's always great to get those little reminders to laugh and keep looking up! I have to admit, just hearing that story made me laugh a little, cause I can just picture those tiny shorts I've seen in the stores. Usually instead of laughing though, my mouth just drops open! lol 
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
13 Sep 08
sabbatha you were lucky to meet such a nice lady. my friend Nelda who is 76 is just like that and the greatest friend anyone ever had. she is there for me and I for her. we support each other throuh thick and thin. Its nice to have such a wonderful
'best friend.
@sabbatha (287)
• United States
13 Sep 08
That's wonderful to hear. Friends are truely life savers at time. Everyone should have at least one. And to have an older friend that is cheerful and supportive is wonderful. Most older people I meet usually are very negative, and complaining about every ill, ache and pain that they have. To focus on the good though, is really the way to achieving happiness.
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
16 Sep 08
My mother is that type of person. She is always cheerful, in spite of her battle with "C". She is the love of everyone's life in my family. Imagine a woman who is loved by all of her in-laws, that is rare in itself.
She is bald due to the chemo she is taking, and usually wears a head scarf while she is in the house. One day, my eight year old niece said to another niece "oh, your hair is gorgeous. My mother said "well how grown up you sound" my young niece then said, grandma, let me see your hair. My mother laughingly said, it's upstairs, (meaning her wig) everyone got a good laugh out of that, except my little niece, she was baffled as to why grandma's hair was upstairs,
@sabbatha (287)
• United States
17 Sep 08
Oh, I hope your mother beats that cancer, she sounds like a wonderful person. My mother was like that as well, but she is no longer with us and I miss her terribly.
It's great that she can keep up her sense of humor during such a trying time. I believe laugter can be amazingly healing, so I think she is already on her way to recovery!
