I went to the front of the coffee shop to post this blog entry. Not this one, see, but the one I lost. It was a beautiful story, which I may write again one day. Right as I was about to post it, I shut my computer down abruptly. I saw this girl I hadn’t seen for nine years. And the first words out of my mouth, right after, “I remember you!” were “I just lost my story.” To which she said, “you’re pretty peaceful for a guy who just lost his story.”
And then she informed me that her boyfriend was coming soon. In the last nine years, she said, she had worked with clinically studies and teaching autistic kids how to dance. I told her I run a company, write a little and love to introduce good people to each other. Then the boyfriend came and we parted ways. Nine years of catching up in about :60 seconds. In that time I was about to see that nothing, really, had changed. I wonder if she saw the same?
This story I lost was a damn good story. And I wrote it to share it with you. Maybe in a month or two, I’ll try rewrite it. But you can’t write the same story twice, can you? If I were to write it, I’d simply write a different story perhaps inspired by the first yet different from it. The story would have a life of its own: not the younger brother growing up in his older brother’s shadow, but rather the young brother becoming his own man.
How do deal when you lost something you created? When is the last time you’ve summarized your life for someone you haven’t seen in 9 years? Did it work out well for you? I lost this story, this story I wanted to share with you.
A Life of Wonder 
i do love this, sir. it’s fantastic.
You just made me realize that it actually does not take a long sit down dinner or lunch to catch up with people. Sometimes, expecting that to be the only way to catch up can be more of a hindrance to doing the actual catch up, which as you just confirmed, can be done in a very short time.
Thanks
I just saw a girl today I hadn’t seen since high school graduation. Nice girl. We talked some in high school. Spent about a good five minutes talking. Not much to say other than what we were studying in school, where we were going, etc.
I really like what you wrote 🙂 ,I’ll keep my eyes on you.
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