While hanging out with my old friend on xmas eve he made a comment that made little sense to me. “Hey, I have all new socks!”
“That’s great, Mofo. Ummm congrats?” I wondered why I was supposed to care about his socks.
“Don’t you remember my socks?” He asked. And no, in the 2 years since I’d last seen him and almost three years since we’d successfully partied ourselves out of our jobs, I’d never once thought about his socks.
“No, sweetie. I don’t remember your socks.”
“Really? You made so much fun of me for my socks. I replaced them all after that.”
I laughed. I had no recollection of this because it meant that little to me, but it had apparently been quite impactful for Mofo.
This little exchange got me to thinking about all the times people have made comments that have bugged me. Or all the times I’ve said things that meant nothing to me but may have been hurtful or thought-provoking or life-changing to someone else. Because really….all new socks is pretty life-changing, no? How many times do we say things in passing that are so much more serious to the person receiving the message? How many things have we received that were meant to just be casual comments and have, instead, had huge impacts on our lives?
Interesting to me.
It’s so true… How much of an impact one sentence you say can have on another person. Funny how that works :)
I know there’s been times where someone has said something to me, and it has completely changed how I look at things in my life. Even people that don’t matter to you can have an impact on what you do. Maybe it’s because everyone is connected somehow, who knows!
Interesting though :)