Cyntilating
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ORIGINAL: ExSteelAgain From my journal last Feb. There is something about going to Walmart on a cold, dark night that makes me feel better with the teeming people in search of companionship under the bright lights. It shocks me when I enter from the parking lot and the weather to see all of that activity in the controlled environment. I’m in another world where darkness doesn’t matter. There is nothing bad here. The old lady dressed in that blue thing gives me a shopping cart with a noisy wheel. I hold the handle of my cart tightly for security as I enter past the arcade carnival like games with toys in the glass asking for 50 cents a try to take one home. Ronald McDonald sits on a bench. All the color and cartoon like characters dressed in blue make things swirl for awhile. I'm in an Alice in Wonderland experience I tell myself. Where is Scarecrow? Inside I try to focus on why I came. I push the cart to the right like I do when I walk on the track and hope things will come to me. Remember it is Saturday night and the big event of the week for many. I notice a beautiful young woman in a wheel chair approaching. Her hair and make-up is perfect and she smiles at me as we pass on that aisle where the clothes and food sections come together. Of course, this is her way out, too. Her Saturday night date whispering and touching her…the bright lights and warmth of Walmart. I push my noisy cart faster until the sound of the bad wheel blends into something bearable, not seeing the items on the shelves for awhile. By the time I check out, exchange pleasantries with the clerk and pick my bags off the spinning carousel, I’m one of the experienced, one of the characters in the surreal setting, as I watch the newbies entering. I’ve got things and they have nothing. Out into the dark again, but feeling as if I’ve done something as I drive into the darkness, glancing in the mirror at the huge island of light behind me. why come to a forum like this? because of the above....finding genuine caring and sharing is rare, but worth the wait (and some wading through others ) when it happens.. Most of the time I feel like a sponge...love information and sharing of thoughts and experiences....whether its WIIWD ( who ever thought of that first,,,THANKS lol ) or other interests in my life> just loving sharing thoughts and feelings...Like to do it over coffee with friends, I also have several ladies groups I attend on a weekly basis and like to do it on the internet when available.. so thanks to those of you who do also and continue to come here and share of yourselves so openly... and Thank you again, Steel, for sharing that. not lacking in interest yet! LOL
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Cyndi .."There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. " Edith Wharton
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