Apparently life does, sometimes, bring you exactly what you need. It especially happens when you decide what life brought you is what you needed. It's not prince charming and it's not the novel I'd have written for my life, but it would make a good Nicaraguan novela.
January: I'm too busy hating my job to keep track of who holds on to the flat face of the Earth and who falls off.
Fabruary: I hate my job more, but.. like a Ray Of Light my Obsession for the next months appears in my living room (unrequested and unannounced). His best quality is that, due to the fact that he physically disappears to a different continent 4 full hours after our encounter, he never ever says or does anything wrong. Initially he even seems capable of using technlogy to give signs of life.
March: He loses his IT skills and falls off the face of the Earth.
April: I still think He's The Best Thing I've Ever Seen. By not giving me any sign of life, he does a wonderful job at not proving me wrong.
May: I get The Job. Hot & boring D for Distraction comes along. And falls off the flat face of the Earth within a week. Not interesting even in the falling style.
June & July: Best summer in the history of England, WEEKS go by with no sign of rain! I try to implement a highly scientific risk diversification strategy, which results in various strickingly ideantical falls off the face of the Earth.
August: The supposed Best Thing I've Ever Seen makes his reappearence on the face of the Earth and in the City. He is schizofrenically interested/uninterested. Schizofrenia, as far as I can recall, was never on my List.
September: Plan D for Distraction fails entirely because Distraction is not Dumb, and notices the hearts popping out of my eyes when in the presence of The supposed Best Thing I've Ever Seen. International trip #1 leads to another disaster in diversification not worth describing in any detail.
October: I get back to London in the psychophisical condition of a cleaning cloth. The supposed Best Thing I've Ever Seen clarifies any doubts I may still have had by immediately stopping his schizofrenia and staying firmly put off the flat face of the Earth.*
International trip #2 brings me back to my Home by Chance (I also have my Home by Birth & Home by Choice) where I get a temporary cure for my detached cynism - total adoration. Latinos love to sweetalk. I'm not cured. But I decided I needed what Life gave me, and I took it without complaining (too much).
*It is particularly interesting to observe the behaviours of the fallers off the flat face of the Earth when you accidentally bump into them. They will ask you: "why don't you just stay put?" when you tell of your 7 upcoming intercontinental work related trips. 'Cos you know, if you'd 'stay put' they would totally stay fallen off! And you know you'd want to be there for the experience.
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