What's good? What's the news? How ya doing? β From experience, I'm realizing, I'm one of the rare people who see a friend or even a stranger and pose that question sincerely. β I genuinely want to know. I want to hear what you found to be a good thing today. With all the madness and scattered misery going on in the world, did you notice a good thing? How about a blessing? Anything that flipped your gratitude switch? β Where I'm from, folk walk by each other on the street with stone-faced ambivalence and when someone says "How ya doing?", we just say it back. β What do you think we could change if we asked after our neighbors and genuinely waited to hear the answer? If we genuinely responded in kind? Do you think it would open an opportunity to hear and be heard? To discover how you can be of service, even if it's to offer a bit of spoken encouragement? β I watched two young men avert their eyes as they passed each other one day. Not wantimg to be "joe". What would change if we nodded familially, or greeted each other with a fist bump, just in passing? Just acknowledging, "I see you, fam." What would change about the violence, the apathy, the state of protecting and standing up for each other? What COULD change? β I see the potential, so I will continue to brave the weird looks when I smile at strangers, genuinely answer to greetings posed as questions, and pause to wait for the good things we can hear after "What's good?" . TELL ME "WHAT'S GOOD?" (ACTUALLY ASKING HERE...) β #greetyourneighbors #prayforphilly #loveinthediaspora #whatsgood #sayitback #iknowyouseeme #beablessing #acceptablessing #loveonstrangers https://www.instagram.com/p/CS2Yw9CnXSd/?utm_medium=tumblr
