serendipity
October 30, 2006
catesbool
just when i thought the guy is invisible, i stumble by accident upon of the rare pictures he has sent me.
my best friend has a very weird sense of humor and an even strange way of connecting with me. he knows when i need to talk to him and when i don’t.
he has this queer habit of just happening to call me when i am getting depressed or losing my focus or just downright down and need some good talking in the head. whenever i am in one of those moods, i would either get a call or an email from him and always the first thing that pops out of his mouth is an explanation about why i feel the way i feel or why what i am thinking is just insanely irrational. and i haven’t even opened my mouth yet or said anything to him. he just pops in like that like he has already seen through my mind and the guy is so uncanny. how in the world did i end up having a friend like him?
oh well, i really shouldn’t complain. how many persons do you know who knows you inside out and reads you like a book like my best friend? and how many people in your life do you have who just railroads into your mind and your life when you need him to without you asking him?
i have told him a hundred times that he has a strong sense of ESP but being the insanely rational human being that he is, he just shrugs it off with his usual touch of irony and just gets right on with his business. and he is always a mean business person in the good sort of way.
the guy is no saint, mind you. he hates politicians and in a somewhat naive but again, rational way, he wants to make politicians in the philippines more accountable than they should be. hence, his thesis on how to make them more accountable when he did his masters in australia.
and here i was thinking he will never rub shoulders with politicians. well, he did not but to be more precise about it, he was shaking hands with a politician just when i thought he will not do it. and i was laughing while waiting for the world to end when i accidentally stumbled upon a picture i didn’t even realize he sent me. and what was he doing in the photo?
he was standing there more thin than i remembered and he was shaking hands with the president and smiling too. just when i thought that some things are beyond compromise, here i find him in this position. of well, i suppose i ought to forgive him. after all, it’s part of his job now as director at the office of the executive secretary. he’s working his way into the government service and i suppose, i should be more forgiving of him. after all, he’s done a lot of mellowing down in the last year or two and even changed his image from the rake that he was when he was trying to look like antonio banderas (when he did not realize he looked like the hairy and a bit uglier version of john cusack) to the clean guy look because of his position.
serendipity… works wonders!
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