ktobin76
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Re:Are We All Conected Somehow? - 2008/07/09 16:59
Are we connected AND do the things we do help us stay connected. They say karma is real and if you spread good karma it will someday return to you.
I was running a small used car business when my autotrader rep brought me his guitar that he wanted to sell. It was an Alvarez, not too expensive but a quality guitar with some abalone inlays and had a good sound. I picked it up and noodled with it for maybe 5 minutes, all the while gabbing about how I love to play and playing snippets of rock songs to see how every fret felt and sounded. I was not really looking at my friend, but when I was done I handed it back to him and told him it was a nice guitar, told him it was probably worth $150 but why sell it? I told him he couldn't replace it for that, and unless he truly needed the money he should go ahead and keep it which he did. This was in 1997.
Lo and behold in 2004, I run into the same rep at a different dealership where I am now employed. He came up to me and asked me did I remember the guitar he showed me a way back when. He then proceeded to tell me that he was awed that day at how beautiful I had made his guitar sound, and that had inspired him to learn to play. After 2 years of lessons, he met a girl and they became a couple and had married. He told me that her favorite thing to do with him is to sit on their porch at night and listen while he sang and played the guitar to her. He could not thank me enough for enriching his life like that, and I must tell you that I almost started to cry it touched me so. The totally random act for me had a profound effect on someone else. I kinda like those connections better because they aren't so eerie.
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