This is part 2 of a previous story. Everyone should learn to understand and communicate better. To finish the story I started yesterday about the sweet young man that didn’t want to lose the woman he loved. When he came into the shop and told me his story and told me to do whatever it took to make him look different and more stylish it broke my heart. He put his faith in me when he should have had that faith in himself. He really didn’t realize what a beautiful person he really was and apparently neither did his partner.
When people only view the outside to me that is very superficial. Why can’t we as humans realize that there is more to a man or woman than appearance and we all need to be appreciated for who we are and what we stand for and not how we look.
Back to the story, He was my last customer of the day so I cleaned all of my equipment and put my stuff away. I had to go out into the store and pick up a few things before heading home. When I finished my shopping I was headed back to get my bag when I saw the young man and his girlfriend leaving the shop hand in hand and looking so lovingly at each other.
I thought ut-oh she didn’t like what I had done and wanted me to do something differently. When I got to the shop the girls were so excited to let me know that his friend had loved the new look and had insisted on coming back to personally thank me. She had told them that she always knew he would look like that and she had made the ultimatum for his benefit because he had been lacking the assurance and confidence in himself that she knew he needed.
No one ever sees themselves the way other people do, but apparently he hadn’t realized that she was trying to help him see that the outside had matched the inside all along. With his new image you could see the new spring in his step and to me he looked so much more confident by the way he was carrying himself. I did learn something from that experience. I now realize that there is always 2 sides to a story and no one ever sees the story the same way.
People need to learn to communicate better and learn to express what they are really saying. I now try to see all sides of a story and try never to jump to wrong conclusions. I had jumped to the conclusion that she was a very shallow person which was a judgment on my part.
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