Member-only story
The Bartender
Leave the tip, receive the change.
Strange how a conversation with a stranger can change your perspective on life in just a matter of minutes. It's remarkable how God can bring someone into your life whom you never even knew existed, yet they seem to know just who you are.
Sometimes we find it easy to share our troubles with an unknowing bystander who knows nothing about our life, but yet, one conversation can reveal our complete life story and change us as a person.
We bottle up our feelings because we feel like a burden to others and know they have their own lives with struggles aplenty, and do not need ours to be that little butterfly to tip over the already weighted flower.
We all need to vent to someone, and it is a very critical decision on whom we choose to let it all out to. Some listen to actually help you through your issues, and others listen to spread your downfalls and later use them as ammo against you.
However, the top of a whiskey bottle can become the ice breaker and allow us to become our true selves and release our inner demons with like-minded people who share the same choice of outlet.
We find ourselves most comfortable around people who we feel will not judge us or make us feel judged. Our minds or hearts do not completely or truly open up until we…
