Handbags curing broken hearts?

So I know that I complain about my job a lot, but every once in awhile, I meet someone who makes me want to change my entire life around. I met a woman last night who inspired me in an immense way. After she left, I just stared at the ground for a couple of seconds and just thought about how I could possibly be as warm and welcoming as she was. What did I need to do with myself to become a step closer to complete and utter happiness even in times of sorrow? She came into the store practically glowing, and I learned, once she came to check out a purse and card holder that she fell madly in love with, that she had recently lost her fiance unexpectedly. She said, "Today has been a good day because I've been out spending money," she giggled, "but we were going to go to San Fransisco." To be completely cheesy, my heart absolutely ached for her. His funeral is today. I apologized and felt like an idiot. I hate it when people apologize under terrible circumstances, but what else is there to say when you're at a complete loss for words, really? She thanked me and said that I was sweet, but what I really felt was helpless. Her quest for the night was to find a black purse that she had seen in a Tyler Perry movie that she claimed looked "sharp", but she also felt drawn toward the purse that I mentioned earlier. It was honey yellow with a matching floral card holder. Everyone has their way of dealing with sadness, and this woman decided to smile through her gloom and patch her scar with a yellow handbag.

I adore her optimism. After a night in the children's department full of screaming toddlers, whining preteens, clueless mothers, and a headache, she gave me something to think about. It's amazing how a complete, random stranger can approach you one day and make you feel like you really know them. People come through that store every day with irritated looks on their faces and a string of questions, but not like this woman; she was something else. I just sincerely wish that I would have asked her what her name was.