Jun 10
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Better Together
There is a song by Jack Johnson that often plays in my head taking about how things are “better when we’re together”. Though this song has more of a romantic tone to it, I like to apply just that line to any other person who matters to me. Most of the time when this song enters the circuitry of my mind, it is provoked by being with someone I love, knowing that for me, things really are better when we are together.
I am definitely the kind of person who loves to talk. Even if I am sitting in the car with someone else and neither of us is talking, I’ll bring up something that is almost pointless just so that we are exchanging some sort of dialogue. “Awkward silence” is something that is almost non-existent in my life because I pretty much always have something to say, and if I feel comfortable talking with you about it, you better brace yourself for an exciting earful.
I am also the type of person that rarely meets a stranger. When someone is sitting next to me in a waiting area, in line for an amusement park attraction, next to me at an event or performance or walking around in a similar section of the grocery store I look for something to say that would connect us.
Maybe they are wearing my favorite brand of shoes or have my same kind of cell phone. Maybe they are stylishly modeling gear from one of my favorite sports teams or have on a shirt from the school that I go to. Maybe they just look nice and approachable, or perhaps a bit scattered or exhausted, in need of a social lift. These kinds of people are everywhere and the kind of conversations I have with them often make my day. I usually never see these people again, but I will probably always remember the random thing we talked about like how they prefer to eat their rice crispies with marshmallows—TRUE STORY—or how they had that Yankees hat I would have bought from them right that second because I love it so much. But anyway, these little moments of smiling or talking in the car are what spike ideas in my mind and are often among the ways I enrich my everyday life. A philosophy I have is that everyone has a story, and I want to know what that is…
So, this time with other people, these moments where I am given advice, support or a smile make my life better each moment at a time. So, do you think we are better when we are together? You betcha! Jack Johnson couldn’t have said it better…unless maybe he was with someone else 
Share your life with those around you and see if that makes things a little bit better. What’dya say?
