People.....can teach u so much

This I also wrote a while back, reflections of a passing day. Thoughts that made my mind wonder.....

Today I met this Lady. I don't know if i actually "met" her, coz you generally meet only people you KNOW-people familiar to you.
Anyways, I was walking my dog, when she walked by me. Not being a snob (at least thats what I'd like to think), I smiled. Much to my surprise, she gave me a wide-toothed grin and said Hi! I was kinda stunned (too extreme, maybe taken aback is a better way to put it), coz I did not know who I was looking at.
My idle mind consumed me and I began wondering how I couldn't remember this lady, who seemed to know me perfectly well. I began to question my ability to acknowledge my acquaintances and wondered if I was growing old a little too soon. I wondered if I would be able to recognize my friends one week from now, judging by the way I was going. It was a startling revelation for me, to think that I could loose touch with this world and with reality. But there was nothing missing...I had no known illnesses, I took no medication and was definitely miles away from steroids. So why was my cerebrum not supporting me? Was it drying up.......maybe there wasn't enough fluids reaching there.....or was I overloading it? That cant be, coz inspite of being in my "most" crucial year of education- the big 1+2, everyone was telling me how serious i needed to get, and my lack of it, and how it was time I gave up fun completely. So it wasn't possible that my brain was overworked.
Maybe it was the other way around.... maybe it had lost its power to function normally bcoz it had rusted over time. That could be it. But what could I do about it? I was scared and I've realized it only coz of that nice lady. I maybe should've thanked her for knowing the precarious condition I'm in.
Or maybe, just maybe she was trying to return the gesture of a smile with a more personal acknowledgement, by saying Hello.
dated 08/22/2002

People have a way of surprising you sometimes......And maybe we've bcum so cynical that there is this urgency to look at everything suspiciously........But there are still people who are willing to smille to make another's day...no questions asked, no answers expected. I'd sure like to be one such.It would be nice to see the whole world smiling, wouldn't it? (at strangers, too!)