Every time that I begin a blog the first word that I type is "so..." and then I go back and erase it. But that has nothing to do with anything.
Thursday night I was watching the USF football game with my friend at Chilis. We were seated at the bar in front of their beautiful HD television when I heard and could not help but notice the guy that was seated next to me.
Sean looked, talked, and acted like Eminem. Come to find out he was 33 years old (He looked about 25). He had brought his 13 year old daughter to Chilis that night with him to sit at the bar. The funny thing (I should say that one of the many funny things) I realized immediately was that Sean talked to his daughter like I figured that he would talk to one of his buddies. Imagine the most hyper ghetto fabulous white guy hanging out with all his black friends and cracking jokes about everything. This was going on between Sean and his daughter.
I first wrote Sean off as one of the biggest losers probably of all time. I mean, what 33 year old talks like that and dresses like that and especially to his daughter? Although Sean was a loser in my mind...he could make anybody laugh. Pretty much anything he said was hysterical and it was even more funny because of the situation. One of my favorite parts was when he was watching the game and the USF player trucked a Rutgers player and Sean stood up and said:
"Daaaaaaaaaaaamn, that boy coulda killed anybody....dis nigga(as he pointed to me)...dis nigga(as he pointed to the black lady near him)...and even dis huge nigga(pointing to the manager on duty)."
Now thats just funny.
Anyways as we watched the game you couldn't really help but talk to Sean.
Long story short Sean was one of the most honest people I have ever met. He has one of the best relationships with his daughter (even though nothing I could ever say would make you believe that) and even more so had some incredible advice.
My friend and I are both engaged and we started talking to Sean about it. He basically questioned us to see if we really loved our fiances and then told us that he could see it in our eyes and our smile and proceeded to offer some of the best encouragement about marriage I have gotten.
It was all so insane, seriously.
But Sean turned out to be a lot cooler than the loser that I had originally pegged him to be. He was a lot funnier than you could imagine. He was a lot smarter than his attire supposed. He was a lot kinder than his tattoos suggested. And he cared a lot more about people than I did.
Its so odd sometimes the people that God uses to reveal His character through. If I truly believe what I say than I do believe that every person reveals the character of God in some way even if they don't know it or even if they don't want to. If we are made in the image of God than little things like being nice, or making people laugh, or odd people who can look past your stereotypical eyes and still want to talk with you...reveal the heart of God.
Sean is a crazy guy and I'm glad we met.
And I kinda like Eminem for reasons I do not know.
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Ok, first I do the same thing. Every blog I'm like "so,..." It warmed my heart to know I'm not the only one.
I'm glad you got to meet Sean and experience what you did. I'll be interested in knowing what he said about marriage. I'm glad he encouraged you. :)
I usually want to start, Well,... in fact I almost started this comment with well. I am so glad that when I first attended parkway in 86, that Danny was looking at my heart. Not my long hair or my earrings, and when I got my tattoo in 95 he didn't look down on me. It is where your heart is.
Bikers can be some of the toughest people on the outside, but are usually some of the nicest on the inside. I come from a family of hard core bikers, so I guess it is a little easier for me not to judge quickly on outward appearance. in honesty, I do not like Eminem.
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