1) Walking on the streets in a strange(not anymore) city, in the split of moment there is a blond who walks in the opposite direction.I go right to avoid her and she goes right too , then i go left and she goes left too.
And then we both stop and smile at each other. Out of the blue she hugs me suddenly and says something and walks away while i stand stunned.
2) Walking into the stands to watch the French grand prix for the first time, its highly discouraging to see all places in free stand occupied.Not in a mood to give up, i use my broken French to communicate my desire to go forward and end up sitting right in front of the track,crossing barbed wires,convincing the gaurds in broken french, for an unbelievable experience.
3) Walking alone in the Milan station at 10:30 p.m , with no hotel reservation, i was running door to door, but all hotels were either full or too costly.Lots of pickpockets around Milan station and returning fans from a football match dint make it any better either.Of all people, a drunk football fan, suddenly approached me and guided me to a hotel nearby on the other side of road.I got a room for 30 euros.
4) That i am going to propose to her was well decided.What to say to her was not. When i finally did. i said a lot of things which i heard for the first time myself.Some were killer dialogues.I spoke my heart out.That she did not buy it is a completely different story.
I have no idea what the blond who almost kissed me, said to me, I have no idea what i spoke in French to convince the guard to let us through, i have no idea how i understood the Italian spoken by the football fan to help me. I don’t remember much of what i said to the girl who was never to become mine.
I have come to believe that words are always forgotten, its the moments you remember.
The smell of perfume of the blond girl, The obvious sympathy in the guard’s eyes to let us through, The sincere but drunk football fan who helped me and the feeling of having proposed to someone I truly love/d.
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck quotes (American psychiatrist and Author, 1936-2005)
