~ meditation ~

I'm now more than three weeks into the Headspace Take 10 programme. I don't know to what degree meditation can have a positive effect on one's day, but I feel like it has a noticable effect on mine. I feel less stressful even though I'm not doing less stuff. Anyone else here meditating?

~ random encounter of the week ~

I was climbing the stairs from the platform to the exit of the train station when the guy in front of me dropped his empty cup. Bending over to reach it, a bottle that was sticking out of his backpack poured some water on his neck. It looked like he kept some kind of thin bamboo sticks in the bottle? I felt bad for him so I said something like 'hey man, your bottle is open and so is your backpack' and he looks at me with the vilest look on his face and growls:

DIDYOUTOUCHIT?!?!

'no, I just wanted to say that...'

WELL DON'T EVER TOUCH IT. UGH.

And then he scurried away to the bike stalls, leaving me behind all confused. While exiting the station a girl came up to me asking what happened. We concluded that he was just rude. I still don't know what Bamboo Backpack Guy was thinking.