Renewed Faith in the World

First of all, sorry for the lack of updating - I started out so well! But I was sans internet for the last week and a half as I was visiting my best friend, but hopefully now I'll be able to get back on track! On to today's topic...

So I'm up north visiting my wonderful family, and for the last few days it's been just me and my aunt and uncle, who are pretty darned cool. My aunt and I were at the mall today just doing some shopping - yay Express jeans were on sale, as were Lacoste shirts and I found my clinical shoes I've been looking for, and best of all, NO TAX! If you're from Texas, you'll appreciate that! But oh my goodness we saw the absolute sweetest thing - we were both almost in tears.

We had just finished eating at Subway and my Aunt wanted to look in the haircut place next door to see if they had this specific product she's been looking for, and yay they did. The girl working there is finishing up on an older lady just as we walked in , but of course we can only see her from the back and she has the cape thing on. Her also elderly husband is standing protectively next to her and it was just so obvious his love for her. As the girl finishes drying the lady's hair she compliments her telling her how she looks like a new woman and everything. Then she takes off the cape (sorry I don't know a better word for it - I know you're probably getting the same superman vision I am!) and it is obvious that she has had a stroke, and both the hair stylist and her husband carefully get her up, though it was a struggle, as she needs assistance with every step. However, the stylist never flinched, didn't hurry them, nothing - to her they were the only people in the world that mattered.

We wait for them to pay and I commented to the lady how good her hair looked, but she didn't hear me and that's when we realized she couldn't speak. The total comes to $15 something, and it took all of my might not to jump in and pay for them, but I could tell in the man's actions that it would probably damage his pride - he was so very proud of his wife and that he had taken her to get her hair cut. So we keep watching as the husband hands the stylist a $20. He refuses to take the change, and then gives her an additional $5 - yes a $10 tip for a $15 haircut. The girl literally could not have been more gracious - it was simply a beautiful moment, as the man then so caringly helped his wife out the door. All three of us, me, my aunt, and the stylist, just stood there looking at each other for a minute, and with that, my faith in humanity and in the world was renewed.

Every day we see such negativity and bad examples of behavior, but today I witnessed something so simple, yet so touching. So thank you, to this couple, for showing me that there is still good in our world.