to quick to conclusions...

so today I got dropped off around tunstall square and so i took a bus to get home, got off at jackson court and decided to go to the newsagents to get a small diary planner thing which i can keep in my pocket. So got into the newsagents and then got the diary and waited to pay for it. While I was waiting the guy behind the counter serving this other woman seemed a bit 'dangerous' you could say the word is.. not really but you know those kind of people who you look at and listen to and they just seem a bit eeeek. like the kind of people you want to stay away from. Anyways he was talking to the lady infront of me about smoking, so she was buying some sort of light cigarette coz she was trying to quit and he was like talking to her about cigarette's and wishing her good luck in quitting as she left. I immediately thought 'if you're wishing her good luck then dont sell the stupid cigarette's to her.. duhh!!! thats just stupid'
So anyways put the diary down on the counter and paid for it, just as I was walking away he was like, 'Donvale Christian College... blue jumper you must be in year 12?' I responded with a 'yes, how did you know?'
He told me his daughter who was in year 8 went to donvale, I asked him what her name was he said 'Nicole Mercandel' the surname sounded familiar in my head but I said, sorry not sure who she is. He then went on and said 'I used to have another child that went there but he died the other year, Mark Mercandel' That immediately shocked me and my heart stopped for one second, and i was like.. WHAT!!?? in my head and I just was like 'Oh, im so sorry for your loss' He then went on and said see I have a picture here, and he showed me a picture of Mark on the counter of the newsagents.

We continued in small talk for a little bit before I left. I left with my heart feeling guilty of judging a man who had lost everything, his own son. It made me think everyday we judge people who are God's sons and daughter. I make the mistake every day and im definitely guilty, but I know and am trying to change that :)