Reflections on a Moment

I wasn't sure what to name this post because it is so short and not on any single idea. This is really just a thought I have about something that I saw a while ago (and I still remember it because it affected me that much).

Maybe I take little things too seriously or too much to heart. This had absolutely nothing to do with me- it was simply someone's treatment towards another person that I noticed and thought was very interesting. I am unintentionally making this sound dramatic (when it absolutely isn't)!

This is such a small, should-be-insignificant moment.

It was during finals of last semester (I have been that busy that I haven't had time to write this short post since school ended in May).

Anyway, finals time is a very stressful time of the school year. The only comforting thing about this stressful period is that all of your peers are going through the same stress and you all go through it together.

I was standing outside my classroom one day, waiting for the previous class to end. A girl from my class was standing next to me and there were students standing/sitting all along the walls of the hallway.

Suddenly, a random boy started talking to the girl next to me. He was telling her about how stressed he was, and how he wasn't sure how he could get through it.

This was a completely random boy randomly telling a completely random girl he didn't know how he would get through the stressful week.

I stood there confused. It didn't seem like they knew each other, but on the other hand there he was all of a sudden telling her how stressed he was.

The girl just listened to what he had to say. She didn't look at him like he was weird, or confused about why he was telling her this or talking to her. She just listened to him vent to her for a minute before assuring him that he would be OK. He proceeded telling her that he was just very stressed and just wanted the week to be over. She nodded and smiled and then he walked away.

I don't know why this blew me away- maybe because I'm not used to people acting so nonchalantly, or maybe because I myself don't usually randomly talk to strangers. But I don't think that girl did either.

It was just how she was so nice about it- listening to him even though she didn't know him and not acting weirded out- just listening.

I thought how I might have reacted had I had a random person talk to me like that- I probably would've acted confused or somewhat weirded-out.

But I liked how she reacted and that she reacted the way she did- and would like to be that accepting of others.

It would be cool if people would be that chill more often.

And that's it- really nothing major. That just really hit me for some reason.