You Decide What This Means

I have a fas­ci­nat­ing obser­va­tion to report.

I was at the air­port a cou­ple of weeks ago, and the typ­i­cal “air­port stress” was in the air. It seemed that every­one was grumpy, and as I’m sure you all know the feel­ing… it’s so hard not to get sucked into that energy.

So, I’m sit­ting at the gate, wait­ing for my delayed flight with CNN play­ing on the over­head TV. Typ­i­cal stuff. War, crap econ­omy, and I think we even had a child kid­nap­ping that day. All of this was pound­ing in, when it happened.

CNN closed with a piece about cute things falling asleep, a web site ded­i­cated to adorable videos about things falling asleep. Instantly, the mood in the wait­ing area changed. It was lighter, peo­ple were laugh­ing. This was to be expected.

What I didn’t expect, but still gives me chills to imag­ine, was that as the mood in the room light­ened from the pos­i­tive (and adorable) news story, peo­ple started to con­nect and talk to each other.

Do you have sto­ries like this? How about a com­ment shar­ing them?