Embarrassing, to say the least. Sharing your heart with someone that you think you can trust, only to find that the one you trust is not much more than a machine with a voice.
I can't tell you how difficult it is to open up, when the one you open up to is more interested in whether or not you care to super-size your order. Commerce and fast transactions have left little time for sharing the windows of the soul, and I'm not sure we're any better off for it.
JJ is a friend of mine who has shared her story via my videologs - she recently took a job at Starbucks. The church I've been frequenting recently placed her image on a series of postcards to coincide with their fall grand opening of a new building, and as she was working the Starbucks drive-thru, a woman in her car received her latte, looked at JJ, and exclaimed, "You're in my mailbox!" Celebrity = community?
So there are touchstones. But in the end, I think that lady just wanted her latte.
She wanted her Latte, but it is nice that she looked at JJ and realized she had seen her. Many people are oblivious to anyone around them at all.
Wanting a latte is good but it never seems to be enough.
Posted by: Janus | September 22, 2007 at 10:49 AM