America, One Moment at a Time — #16

~ MMC 2.0

A Question That Goes a Long Way

We were sitting at a traffic light when I noticed a message on a billboard above the road.

“Are you okay?”

At first, I smiled.

Because sometimes, when someone does something irritating, those words mean quite the opposite. 😄

But this time, the question was meant differently:

“ARE YOU OKAY?”
GOES A LONG WAY.

It made me think about how a simple question can sometimes mean so much.

A call.
A message.
A few seconds of genuine attention.

We never really know what someone else may be carrying.

So perhaps we could ask a little more often.

“Are you okay?”

And this time, actually mean it.

It takes only a few seconds.
But it could go a long way. 😊

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Mohan Mathew Chacko is a multi-disciplinary freelance writer and one who runs the WORDSOUPS blog as if it’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened in the storytelling blogging world. From the time when he survived a near-death situation on a surgeon’s table, he considers this his second life and believes he is now a better version of his previous self. Nowadays he likes to be known as MMC 2.0 though no one else seems to care.

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