#composure

#composure

You know that person at the coffee shop who somehow commands the entire room without saying much? Last week, I watched someone transform a chaotic situation at my local café into a moment of calm efficiency. The espresso machine had broken, the line was growing, and tensions were rising. This woman, dressed in simple jeans and a plain white shirt, quietly helped reorganize the queue, offered her spot to someone in a rush, and had everyone feeling better within minutes.

It might have been a moment that caused any Irish person watching to lose capacity for rational thought, and was already the kind of high-stakes circumstance where intensity of emotion overrides everything else, but there was none of that for the man at the centre.