Returning ..? 17 10 9 (22) 25 1 21
When i suffered my heart attack 2002 04 06 it was a close run thing so
the next day or later that same as i awoke in the Intensive Care Unit of our
nearest hospital for such things i began to reflect with all the well-wishers
cheering me as someone akin to being present at one's own funeral...I couldn't
believe their response good wishes from lots of people one didn't realise gave
so much as a care...
Well some years later 2008 8 26 i met this young lady a Japanese girl in a Glasgow Scotland backpacker's hostel and we got to sightsee some of the city's museums together the next morning and then to my great surprise again the next day when she had already arranged to sightsee with this young Hungarian couple who were also staying there. My surprise concerned the fact that she chose my company someone almost three times her age rather than the people in her own age group: when they heard i had expressed an interest in joining their party who then decided to skip visiting museums saying because it was such a beautiful day. Some of my readers reading this may recall that some of these details sound familiar because i have written in the past on the same subject but the remarkable thing to me now is that every day that passes is a day for rejoicing upon the fact that although i thought we had parted company on the 27th of August last year when in a manner of speaking she first became dead to me, out of the blue she re-appeared this year the very same day 17 8 27 to remind me about our time spent together then 9 years ago to the day..?
The second occasion then in my life when i got to thinking of something
in terms of a born again experience..? So often someone in my age group these
days gets to hear about someone losing their partner of many years standing and
of how they yearn to have that person back in their lives..? Like Mrs S whose
husband SS passed away most unexpectedly 2004 11 09 whilst playing a round of
golf and who with his last cohesive speech was said to have exhorted his
friends not to frighten his wife AS by telephoning her, only to be taken to
hospital never to regain consciousness from a massive stroke... For 5 years
thereafter she couldn't visit his graveside often enough such was her
inordinate loss...
Keeping in touch with people however tenuously then has become something
i get to reflect on more and more and then some of the other f-b friends for
example who never get in touch no matter what..? Some of whom i am beginning to
think are becoming candidates for unfriending...
Like another young lady friend i got to meet on a train some 3 years ago
this autumn and another of the people i got to meet whilst traveling in
Scotland for my autumn walking trip. This particular lady was a fellow scientist
and we engaged in conversation from opposite sides of the train she on the port
side me on the starboard a non-stop discourse as our journeys coincided until
her stop came up a little before mine en route to Aberdeen: she returning to
her University in St Andrews to continue her PhD course. On the spur of the
last moments of discussing stuff the suggestion was made undoubtedly by me to
become friends on f-b and I shall always recall the good feeling i had when my
invitation was accepted and when she hit the like button for one of the
landscape pics from that particular holiday i posted. But to my initial message
to her i never got a written answer and so now on another spur of the moment i
sent her a congratulatory message upon finally submitting her PhD thesis,
marking the end of her formal studies and again it would appear i shall have to
wait a long time passing if i am going to get a reply.
So in this case i have decided to await only a few days more and if no
reply is to be forthcoming i am going to terminate our friendship on the basis
is was a bad idea in the first place and move on...
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