Playing on the famous theme from the movie Forrest Gump: Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get! 😄
Embrace and discover life: It is full of surprises and coincidences
Breastfeeding in public: There was a woman sitting at a table in a public seating area of a shopping mall reading a large sized book, which appeared to be a textbook. When asked about what she was reading, she showed the cover of the book. It was a course or preparation book for a breastfeeding consultant. In the public seating area only a few yards away there was a young family with a woman breast feeding her baby in public without any cover. The two parties were strangers and most likely not related at all. The future breastfeeding consultant was smiling when this coincidence was pointed out to her.
Now you may wonder perhaps how many lactating or breastfeeding consultants are out there! 😄
Two young African adults meet for the first time: In the same mall, there is also a store run by an international French perfume and cosmetics company with a very French name. Next to it is a large store of one of the most iconic and most valuable (in terms of stock price) American consumer electronics, software, online services companies. There is a young African woman working in the first store. In the latter store, there is a young African man working. Both have been working in these stores side by side for several months. They did not know each other. The young woman hails from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and she speaks French. By pure chance, not long ago it was discovered that the young man also speaks some French. It was then immediately suggested to introduce him to the young African woman. Once these two young Africans were introduced to each other, the young man revealed he also was from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Did the young man just say that for whatever reason or was this another almost incredible coincidence? Hint: The DR of Congo the fourth most populous country in Africa
On a day when almost any other business is closed, movie theaters are open on Christmas Day! I knew for many years that movie theaters are open during Christmas holidays in Western countries, but I rarely visit movie theaters and definitely not on such a holiday.
Today (12/25/2021), I saw at least four people in a wheel chair and their companions visit a Harkins movie theater in the Phoenix metro area. By wheel chair bound, I mean most likely permanently wheel chair bound not temporarily.
One of these parties was a mother in about her 40s with her young, but presumably adult daughter waiting in a seating area nearby the Harkins movie theater. Not only was the daughter wheel chair bound, but she also suffered from a severe speech impediment and jerky movements. Her mother dressed her up in very nice looking clothing and she was wearing some modest, but appealing makeup. She looked very adorable. She seemed to enjoy herself as far as I could tell. She asked whether there was any Internet access in the movie theater area. Once she got on the Internet with her smartphone, she remarked the Internet access was a bit slow with a big smile.
When I saw the two again a while later, the daughter was still not quite ready to visit the movie theater as I learnt from her mother. So both of them continued to wait for a later show. I hope they went to see a movie or they will try again another day ...
