November 3, 2025
Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met?
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many amazing people in my life.
Sure, part of that is due to the variety of jobs I’ve worked and places I’ve lived. Do I talk about the landlady who lived next door and treated us more like grandkids that renters? She’d bring supper over, or we’d cook and have her over, and she’d fall asleep on our couch watching TV.
Maybe the ex-military men I’ve known. The uncle who was serving in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor attack and never spoke of it. The neighbor, who was a Green Beret in Vietnam during the war and may have taken part in exercises in Cambodia. My father, who served at the end of WWII, who was always tinkering with electronics, and took up music after retirement.
Or maybe the nuns who taught at the high school I attended? The ones who signed anti-war petitions (In the Vietnam days) and led the school in celebrating the first Earth Day? The one who wrote a symphony or the other one who has spent years working for social justice? How about my coworker who had a photographic memory but was also paranoid about life. After I moved, I lost track of him—he doesn’t do social media although he was a computer genius.
How about any of the computer geniuses I worked with at my last job?
The ones that could out-think, out-code, out-program most of the vendors they work with. The one that had a wealth of stories to share from his military days, but also got up at two in the morning for several weeks trying to help an overseas company make their program work for us. Or the one that raised livestock on the side?
But I’ll pick on a former supervisor. I’ll call him “Pete” to give him some semblance of privacy. I watched him grow into a fine supervisor and then struggle with the responsibilities. At first, he worried about meeting one-on-one with me. I suspected his reason, even though he never voiced it. Eventually, he changed his mind. When his church, which he was actively involved in, got a new pastor and changed the way they worshipped and served the community, he left to find a different path.
Eventually, he left the company we both worked for. (I had retired by that point.) He found a job that allowed him to work remotely and travel at the same time. It’s not quite the van life he’s living as he has a home. he and his wife also started a you tube page.
What makes him interesting? Not everyone is willing to follow their dreams. I admire him for taking the risks he has, and not taking the easy way out. I suspect he is happier for it. (If you’re reading this, “Pete,” hello!)
I’m looking forward to seeing who the other authors on this hop talk about. You can find out by following the links below.
As always, until next time, please stay safe.
November 3, 2025
Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met?
Yes, it takes courage not to take the easy option.
Either that or foolishness. It’s hard to find the balance.
Well done ‘Pete.’ People have spent years telling me what I cannot do. Your friend proves that you always can, if you’re prepared to approach things with the right attitude
And you didn’t listen to those people, did you? 🙂
Sounds as if it was a privilege to know ‘ Pete’.
Must I choose just one ? Just one more, please.
Sent as a convent school kid in ankle socks to stay with a family in France, will never forget one evening. A casual anti German comment from one woman, and the most senior man stopped eating, spoke directly to her.
The war’s over., a long time ago. Unless we forgive, there’ll be an other.. And rolled up his right sleeve
Auschwitz, as a schoolboy in Paris, for hiding a Jewish classmate.
The other , I call ‘ The Spy’ – nearly 90 when sher directed me towards indie publishing – –
I am proud of him and the way he’s making his own way.
The world is full of interesting people and sometimes they’re also the most oridinary people you’ll meet.
Exactly!