On Needs and Wants

Scoring: Avril Lavigne's "Complicated"

Past 9am breakfast. Half-way between a cheese mac and scrunching on a biscuit, I finally asked her, "How could you give something more, when you're so empty?"

The rant began. Wiping my tears with my palms, I no longer cared. Diners were reduced to blurred shadows.

"Last night, I realized that I wanted to teach so badly but, this is where I'm needed. It just pains me though that we are expected to fail. I'm not doing this for myself and all the more that I want this to succeed because it's not for me. I want to do more, give more, but how could I?"

"It's the big things that affect you now. I'm the opposite, the little things tick me off."

"Yeah. I've got little issues now as well but, I really don't care. So much responsibility rests on our shoulders..."

Out of nowhere, the waiter hands me some tissues. Dumbstruck. "Thanks" was lodged somewhere in my throat. Real life never felt much of a sitcom until this moment. That's when I realized that all the while I was crying, a different song played until the next track started.

Scoring: Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You"

Tissues soaked, we moved on.  I got some emails and offlines today. Funny, I never thought I'd be missed. You saw someone who made your day.

Coffee break's over.