The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

I Can Be Happy Too … Sometimes!

I recently got accused of being negative and angry … and whilst I would say [1] I’m not really and [2] even if I was, is that so bad? … I thought I’d write about something nice – a moment in my life that will always be something I’ll treasure.

It was a Saturday in September 2004 … around 11:30 in the morning … and I’d just sat down in a cafe [Bar Contessa, Balmain to be precise] waiting for Jill.

We’d literally just met [long story which I don’t want men to be sick over and women to swoon over, ha] but I knew within 2 seconds that something good was going to happen – and I don’t mean ‘good’ in the classic male sense of the word.

Sure she was beautiful and the owner of one of the best smiles I’d ever seen … but what really got me was that when she came bounding in, she didn’t take a seat opposite me … she came and plonked herself right by my side.

Now that might not sound much, but think about it – when was the last time you sat directly next to someone other than on the couch, in the pub or at the cinema?

It immediately gave the moment a sense of intimacy – not in the Andy sense of the word   [ 🙂 ] – but interms of making it all feel abit special … abit closer … abit isolated from the outside World. 

Suddenly we weren’t 2 strangers meeting for the first time … we were people connected in the moment and it felt – as weird as this sounds – like we had both a history and a future. It was basically a magic moment in my life.

And while I got to know more and more about Jill as we spent god-knows-how-many-hours chatting, eating and laughing [though I note she kept her Jillysim problem to herself, ha!] – that initial feeling didn’t change at all, and it was then that I knew, really knew, that regardless of what happened between us, she was going to play a major and positive part in my life.

If I’m ever down, I just have to think of those few hours … re-live seeing her smile, hearing her infectious laugh, watching her big eyes … and it makes me happy again so I hope everyone has their own version of this moment because we all could do with a little more sunshine in our lives, especially if you’re as negative and angry as me, ha!

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