A nice conversation, and a near death experience...

I think the reason why I love going home so much, aside from seeing all those that I love, is that pretty much every day I have is a really good day. I don't know if that's because I've created this utopian vision of what my home is and I just can't see any bad in it, or if everything is just really that good, but either way, I had another super day.
Today, I was sitting in Starbucks doing some homework and just chilling out alone. It was pretty crowded in there and I don't think there were any tables left, and this man who looked like he was about 45 or 50 asked me if I minded if he sat at my table. Normally, you'd think "Ew gross, some old pervert is trying to hit on you" But it wasn't like that, he just needed a place to sit. So we got to talking in between me doing my homework and his working on learning the Korean language. He was trying to learn Korean because he knew a Korean guy at work. He worked at a mail place, and said that he liked it sometimes, but most of the time it was kind of boring. He asked me what I was studying in school, and if I had a good Thanksgiving, I asked him about his thanksgiving and he told me that he and his 3 roommates shared a thanksgiving dinner. He isn't married, but all his roommates were gone, and he doesn't like being alone. We didn't even exchange names until the middle of the conversation, but after we did, he kept calling me by name. He treated me as if we were old friends just catching up. It actually turned out to be a pleasant experience. You could just tell though that he was really lonely. After about maybe 30 minutes or so, he had to go, he wished me the best of luck in school and said it was really nice meeting me. He went on his way and then I started thinking. I just started thinking about how many lonely people there are in the world, and how even though this man Mark was a complete stranger, hopefully it brought a little comfort to his life. It was just one of those experiences where it was kind of random, but you're definitely glad it happens. It just reminded me how as Christians, we definitely need to be a light in the darkness, and even if we don't expect some things to happen, when they do we can spread the Gospel and show God's love, even in the seemingly smallest of ways.

Oh yeah, I also nearly died tonight by almost falling down the stairs backwards with a glass of blue kool-aid, a pair of scissors and a tube of wrapping paper in my hands. I'll be happy to re-enact it if anybody wants to know how I practically perished.