I went to Cox cable earlier today to return my cable boxes, since I got rid of cable a few weeks ago. More on that at a different time. Anyways, as I am sitting there looking around waiting for my turn, I noticed two little girls. One spoke English another spoke Spanish. The dad of the little girl that spoke English was trying to teach his daughter how to say, “How are you?” in Spanish. (Como Estas) The little girl tried to pronounce it but couldn’t.

Still looking around the room, I noticed the employees helping out some mother and daughter whose equipment had been hit by lightening. He said it was quite common and they were describing the strike.

The little girl that spoke English was wandering around the store, within view of her parents. She was awfully cute in a blue maxi dress with flowers and she had long blond, almost light brown hair. The Spanish speaking girl with long dark hair in a red flowered sundress was sitting quietly next to her mom watching this girl.

I then saw the most heartwarming thing… The blond girl motioned to the dark haired girl. The dark haired girl pointed at herself and the blond girl nodded. I then watched the sweet little Spanish Girl walk over to the the blond girl who was holding coloring sheets and crayons. They both sat down at the table and started coloring, pointing at the other girls design and smiling.

Smiling, I thought to myself…. Why can’t we all be this way? Life was so much easier when all we needed to have in common was the fact that we both wanted to color. I wish the adult world didn’t care about language or whether we would see each other again. I wish, as adults, we could see that one spark of similarity and know that everything was right in this world, even for just that one moment. I wish all of us adults could go back to that pure of heart innocence and just enjoy the moment. And color. Coloring is fun!