Making a difference

I was just walking out of Costco today after doing some food shopping and shortly before leaving the store, an older gentleman (one of the Costco employees) approached me. He smiled at me and asked if I was singing with the Nashua Choral Society. Of course I told him I was and already I could tell the smile was spreading all over my face.
He then proceeded to tell me how he and his wife had been to the Mozart concert in March and how they had noticed me and the fact that I knew the whole piece by heart and never looked at my score and how I was smiling all the time. He said it was so obvious that I loved it so much and they had come back to see the last performance too (the Beethoven) and they noticed me again and how I just stood out from the rest because I seemed so happy.
I felt it was probably not the right thing to do to burst into tears at that point (I did later when I'd gotten in the car!!! LOL) but I was so honestly moved and happy that this man had recognized me and more importantly, that he made the effort to tell me how he felt about it!!! I chatted with him for a while, told him how much Diane really contributes to the fact that singing is so enjoyable and then he asked my name so he could go home and tell his wife he'd talked to me! I did encourage them to come to the next concert, whenever that would be and he said they would... hopefully I'll still be around by then.

I've always said that I want to make a difference when I sing. Even if it's just one person who for that time, enjoys themselves and feels like it's time and money well spent. As a member of the choir, you can't really tell if your work alone makes a difference as such. You're not SUPPOSED to be different, that's the whole point, musicalwise. But all in all, it seems that my attitude towards singing and my love for it is visible to people and there's just no greater compliment to me in this entire world! :-D