24 August 2007
The Story of Mr. W & Ms. G - Chapter I: You never know...
)Published on August 24th, 2007 @ 09:27:12 am, using 372 words, 62 views
You stop by a store one day to find The Interpreter on sale and you buy it on impulse. Not something you’d been looking for. More of a spur-of-the-moment whim. A movie you like well enough but wouldn’t put on your favorites list. One of those you love for a handful of scenes or a handful of lines you hold dear to the point of purchase. And you take it home. And you watch it for the third time, after the movie theater and after the DVD rental and on that third occasion you find a line that’ll come to mean more to you than you’ve ever expected. As if it were there waiting to be discovered, pearly - small and opaque, hard to zero in on, but impossibly valuable once found. Impossibly applicable…
“You never know who you’re gonna meet, do you?”
“No.”
You certainly don’t. People come into your life in all shapes and sizes. Out of the blue, bathed in a variety of hues. Bringing coincidences with them - deer-shaped ones, tattoos, habits, recurring names, a repeated word here and there. Little things that can add a measure of fear and discomfort to the heart of the most rational of people. But slowly the differences shed their shyness and plant their flag. Let you know they’re worthier of a spotlight. And the people that come into your life morph into different shapes and different sizes, different hues… taking a whole different place in your life. Becoming something they may not have been to begin with. We all have it in us to become different in the eyes of the people that surround us or that we surround, to gain or lose depth, to be an immeasurable uncharted desert - something foreign which belongs in a whole different continent - or the palm of a hand, your own hand, with all its intersecting, intricate, familiar lines - something you find hard to imagine being without it’s so close.
Talamasca - Illusion World/Illusion World
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Coincidences, applicability, people, change, differences, familiar, foreign
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