First Day of My Life

“When a man won't listen to his
conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total
stranger.”
~Lindsey Stewart

Sometimes your whole world can change
with one conversation with a total stranger. Sometimes that stranger
doesn't need to do anything, sometimes what that stranger says can
bring you peace to something that refuses to diminish inside of you.
Sometimes a stranger is all you need in your life, even if it's for a
brief period of time.

We are all on a journey. A journey of
self discovery where you get to find out who you are as a person.
Along the way you hit some bumps and get lost or stray away from
where you want to go. There can even come a time where you seem like
you are going in one direction and you end up right where you began.

Say you are on a street taking a walk
and you come up to a corner and you have to choose left or right, you
choose right. Then you come to another turn and you choose right
again then one more time and you end up right back where you started.
You go again and keep choosing right and each time you end up back at
that same spot.

It's at that point where that stranger
comes into your life and you tell them why you keep choosing right.
Soon it becomes apparent, they talk to you some more and convince you
to maybe go... left? You go left. It's a whole new journey from
there, and only you will see where it takes you. Then you it's pretty
soon you are going on your own and you are exploring new places, new
faces, you are trying new things.

It's that little amount of time you
talked with that stranger that has helped you choose a different
direction that got you to where you are today or later in life.
However, sometimes that stranger needs to become a friend, by seeing
them a couple times more, but soon you are off on your own and you
are doing wonderful.

My point in all of this is that
strangers are here to help you. A person to talk to and give you
their ideas of what you just told them. You need someone to
reciprocate what you just said back to you without it being clouded
with judgment that you might get from a friend or a family member.

It's just crazy how much of an impact
that one stranger can do in your life to make you see the light in
everything, whether it be helping you learn from your mistakes or
helping you find the light in your future. Don't take them for
granted.

Because everyone needs a little help
from a stranger.

XX
JW