Today I went downtown. Oh how I love the commute and the lifestyle of taking the TTC! (I'm not being sarcastic, i feel so good about not driving)
In the station, there was an old subway musician, in his 70s, playing violin. My first reaction to seeing him play was to clutch my wallet a bit tighter. As I was walking by, i saw these two people, who looked like they were in their 30s, but dressed in big baggy sweatshirts. Offensively, some would call them, 'white trash'. Anyway, I saw the guy stop in front of the old man who just kept playing his violin, and he nicely dropped some coins into his violin case.
That gave me a smile, it was such a nice deed.
See, my reluctance to pay, and seeing the two people, who i judged and assumed to be "poor", was able to spare money and appreciate the music, made me really ashamed of myself. Everybody else, finely groomed or oblivient, couldn't even spare a dime.
So even though I walked 50m away from the violinist already, I pulled out my wallet and dropped him a loonie.
There was something else I wanted to say but I forgot.
Thanks S and T for commenting on my now-non-existent blog post :)
1 comment:
WOW. it's alive, it's alive! welcome back blogger.
that guy was probably like "A LOONIE? A LOONIE?" lol j.k. i always listen to musicians but totally judge them hard. i rarely ever pull out coins/cash cause most I've heard have been just *belgh*. Why isn't TTC setting a standard? ESP if there's auditions to get a permit! or... is.. there?
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