Friday, 22 July 2011

tunes

My partner and I were having our first meal in Venice, where I had taken him for our 1st anniversary/his birthday. We were excited, in love and more importantly-hungry! As the waiter passed slyly between the tables, a song came up, I hummed and overheard him hum too. We both hummed the same tune. This is all I want to write about today. I felt an enormous connection with a person I had never met!

The connection that, while brief, was based on similarity of taste and emotion for a fraction of time at a same geographical place.This moment is the reason why I am more aware people around me- I now look for such seconds of similarity, they give one special joy, if you're "in tune" with these around you.

To put this in context, at this very moment, I am listening to Frank at 2 am...