May 24, 2004

• Tonight was one of those nights that I always hoped for and didn’t even know it. I haven’t felt this complete and.. and I don’t know. I just feel.. good and alive. (maybe it’s just the tea) but I have this joy in my heart and that whatever is coming tomorrow is just a little bump on the road. What’s so special about tonight you might ask? Well, Irene and I went to Starbucks on Main Street Unionville and just sat on the second level couches overlooking the street filled with young delinquents smoking their cancer sticks. But otherwise, yes, we were having our usual talks (about God mostly) and in the midst of the climax of my comment on the unfairness of God, 3 brown (sorry, not trying to sound racist, but how else can i describe them? dark? no..) men approached us and 2 sat on the couches across us and one on a chair in process of trying to steal our couches. But Samie, the one on the chair, turned to us with a bright smile and asked us what we’re talkin about. Irene and I giggled and just continued talking til he asked us again. Then I realized that its’ about time that I engage them into our conversation just to be polite. I asked them if any of them had a Christian background, none of them nodded but instead were Muslims. Cool I thought, and without even introducing each other, we engaged in a long conversation about religions, specifically Islam and Christianity. (so glad I took world religions class) And we just went on and on, until Alex brought up the issue of introducing ourselves, and we did. And shortly after talking about school and our age differences!! (sayid – 31 Alex – 22 and Samie – 20 something) we were kicked out by those green-aproned starbucks workers cause it was time for closing.

  
  

  I don’t know, something about talking to strangers, and actually getting into a real good conversation about anything, even controversial things at times, is so fulfilling in a sense. I don’t know how, but its’ like, you don’t even know this person and it’s like you have so much in common and you can tell them anything. It’s the great sense of knowing that one is capable of building a relationship with someone totally out of your realm of familiarity and comfort that really gives you that zing of surprise and frolic. And the best thing is, you lose your sense of time and when you walk away.. everything just seems like a dream. I just love those moments. If i get to choose, I would sit on that couch forever. One conversation after the other… 

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