No Time To Be Shy

You pass a stranger at the Lounge, pushing your way through the crowd, and you look at each other. You make contact without actually meaning to. And for a brief moment there's a kind of recognition. You look at each other and you know something. You see it in each other's eyes. And the next moment the person has turned their head, or is interrupted, and the moment is over. And it's too late to do anything about it. Still you remember it because it was right there and you let it go.

Just think: "What if I had stopped and said something?"

This might happen only a few times in your life, or even just once. James Blunt's song "Beautiful" is kinda like this. Every time I hear it, I think that he should have just reached out and touched the girl, or shouted out his number.

Moments like this are fleeting. You may never get the chance again to acknowledge this other person's existence like that. I've met some of my dearest friends this way.

Now is not the time to be shy.

Peace,

Tom