I was driving today and I saw something interesting.
There is a large condo complex near where I was heading today. On the bus stop outside, there was a woman who looked to be in her 80s. She was sitting next to a man who appeared to be in his early 20s.
She had on the conservative dress of a woman waiting to catch the bus to a game of cards or a doctor’s appointment. He had on jeans and a tank top, piercings in his nose and lip an was covered in tattoos. He looked like he was heading…anywhere else.
I only had a second at the red light in front of them. But I saw the elderly woman smiling as she was pointing to her own lip. The guy smiled and pointed to his lip and then to his tattoos. She reached over and brushed across his arm, admiringly. She was obviously asking him about his body art and piercings and he was explaining it all to her.
I’m not sure why it was so striking, but it was.
It made me smile.
And I’m sure it made both of them smile as well.
For whatever one person or generation may think of the other, when we really boil it down, all who are elderly were once young, and we are all destined, if we are blessed, to reach our elder years.
How wonderful that we can remember that on a bus stop bench on a Wednesday afternoon.
-josh
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