  while wondering around at lunch, I met a childhood friend, who works at a chocolate counter in a big department store.
it was a pleasure to see her, and even more of a pleasure to interact with her. Being around her is hard to explain, she's younger than me, and while growing up I threw around my older status a lot, but in many ways I feel she's surpassed me in emotional maturity. I get a strange sensation around her, like I'm about to unwrap a Christmas present, like I'm excited about what she will do or say next. A few minutes into our discussion, she says she learned something really amazing, and pulls me aside in one of the aisles to tell me that playboy really does have good articles. It was hilarious and completely unexpected. Then she brought me over to her counter and gave me a bunch of chocolate samples (which were exceptional, BTW) and described each of them with affection and detail.
I was smiling the whole time, it was like she had me in a spell. I really can't explain why she had this drug like effect on me. Then she told me about a course she was planning to teach, about understanding the self, holistic type stuff. Now, I don't really buy into it, but she's the second one of my friends lately that is on this empower and understand yourself kick, so I wanted to respect all she had to say.
She's got the whole course planned out, and I swear, if she has the same effect on others as she does on me, she'll be a huge success. I said I was really happy for her that she sounded so happy with what she was doing and I wished I was doing something that made me happier. She told me to write down all the things that made me happy and try to find the link that I could turn into something I wanted to do. Why does it sound so easy coming from her? It made me laugh because she told me on the top of her happy list was chocolate!
I think that would be somewhere high up on my list too. I left her counter because it was getting busy and I had to head back to work, but it was really great to see her. I think I will have to treat myself to some earl grey chocolate soon so I can pay her another visit. 
