personal journal musings from last week...
Reading in my local coffeehouse last week
a very large, urban place, always crowded
Well...reading, talking, and watching the human circus in action
I go there a lot
Taking a standing break from my comfy chair
one of several surrounding a fireplace
I turn around to view the street activity
through the windows behind me
A girl I noticed walking by a bit earlier is seated at the window bar
she catches my eye and lights up like a firework
Exploding from her seat with purpose
she moves directly toward me with a sparkling trail of excitement
I race through the flash drive of my mind
searching for a memory to go with the vaguely familiar face
It bothers me when someone recognizes me
and I can't reciprocate and this appears to be an extreme case
No luck...so I go into my identification crisis default mode
basically over-animation to distract and buy time
She's quickly in front of me and very close
greeting me with the type of enthusiasm that leaves me breathless
We hug, or maybe not, unclear right now
as I am lost in the sparkle of her intense eye contact
She is speaking fast and familiarly, but I don't catch much of it
until she asks if there is room for us to sit together..."ummm sure"
She flies back to her seat to collect her things
as I stand there stunned and pleasantly confused
My whole being warmed by our interaction
feeling so beautifully interconnected
Returning with the same effusive energy
she engages me with a huge, expectant smile
She lifts her hand so that its contents hover next to her beaming face
exclaiming "I even brought you a red velvet cupcake!"
Well those words are the death knell for my improbable daydream
now obvious that this is a rendezvous, probably an internet date
I apologize (more sorry than she could know*)
relating that there must be some mistake
She asks whether my name is ...
I reluctantly reply that it's not
Then her face takes on several shades of embarrassment
as she glances past me to her actual date a few chairs away and she flees
It happens so fast that I don't even have time to thank her
not that she'd appreciate the gratitude in her present state
I turn to see them immediately leaving
likely, and understandably, a sudden change of plans
I hope to see her again if only to elevate her recollection
of our shared experience, laugh about it together
I know this is a big city
but a small world...I tell myself
Whenever I replay this film short of my life
I may just edit out the scene after the cupcake presentation
I so cherish red velvet greetings
* This is simply a true slice of my life from last week which I decided to journal in free form.*