Just be

People are more apt to smile and talk to me out of the blue these days and I must be giving off energy which encourages it. 

Sometimes it is a passing glance at the person across from you in the metro giving each of you a glimpse of each other's auras which then kicks off an exchange. 

Suddenly the young woman across from me starts to share about the bruise on her leg and we are immersed in conversation trying to drown out the hum of the metro car and its ventilation system. She tells me she is 31 and I tell to live one day at a time and enjoy the journey.

At the end of our brief overlap she gives me a soft fist bump accompanied with a sweet smile asking about the stop she needs to get off at and I tell her it's the next one. 

As hard as this always was for me I finally learned that we need just to relax and simply be. People can read it.