Merry Meet

This past weekend, I was able to participate in a festive, Halloween-season event. Sitting at the marketing booth for our group, I was able to talk to many friendly people who showed interest in our live action role playing group.

I got into a discussion with one prospective player. She had a decent looking costume, so I said hello and we started talking. I suppose I appeared open-minded, but I never bring up religion or politics when marketing our game, so for all she knew, I could have been a conservative person or not spiritual at all.

I was discussing combatant and non-combatant roles in LARP and mentioned that I currently play non-combatant roles because of a back injury earlier this year. I got the immediate sense that she would want to play a healer–not because she was female (as many females do gravitate toward the healer role in RPGs), but because it was just very present. I don’t know how else to describe it.

It turns out, she’s a massage therapist. She handed me her card and explained that the profession kind of chose her–and then openly proclaimed that she follows the Druid path!

Again, being in a professional situation, I did not discuss spirituality, but showed an open-mindedness.

I am fortunate enough also to be in a profession that kind of chose me. Even though that’s so, I feel like it took a lot of spiritual soul-searching to get here.

Have you been affected in this way? How so?

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