Friday, May 28, 2010

Interesting Things

Interesting things happen to people all the time. This much we know. But interesting things never happen to us. Or so we think. We're so preoccupied with other people's interesting things that we fail to see our own.

Or maybe we fear interesting things. It's certainly not normal. We make no time in our schedules or routines for interesting things. Of course, we cannot predict when something interesting is going to happen; therefore, we don't plan for them. But they do occur. I hear about interesting things all the time. From people like you.

Today the metro stop I usually get off on when I go to work did not smell like its usual urine-sweat-rotten sandwich self. Today it smelled like lilac. Lilac! I even stopped and looked around to see where it was coming from. The usual homeless people were curled up asleep near the ventilation grates - probably wasn't them. The sing-songy man who hands out the Express might have been drenched in the sweet scent of lilac, but I doubt it. It just was.

Have you ever smelled lilac? It's a smell that conjures up everything good that has ever happened in your life. Ever. Every exciting, loving, beautiful, magnificent thing that has ever happened to you in your entire life comes to the forefront when you smell lilac.

Unexplained lilac. Interesting.

Anyway, I also got a free Coke with my lunch today.

Godspeed. Good luck. Go Bears.
JC

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