I've spent close to 4 years in Bruxelles and I have 1 stranger who is my most regular stranger. This is the stranger I see the most often, this person is not a bum or a beggar or a shop keeper or a cleaner or someone who I would see doing their daily chores in a regular place, cause those people I would term as acquaintances. Yeah, I know it's pretty lonely out here.
Coming back to the stranger, this is a japanese guy, I know he's japanese because he looks it, he doesn't look chinese or korean, I am convinced he is japanese. I first started sighting him in my first 3 months here and then I realized there was a sushi place close to where I lived and I thought maybe he worked there, maybe he did, but I never saw him there, not that I ever went inside the restaurant, not that I could afford sushi back then, but I just didn't see him around that restaurant pretty often, but I would see him walking on the streets somewhere close by or on the metro or walking through the park.
I moved apartments into a different neighborhood far away from the sushi restaurant but this japanese guy is still my most regularly 'bumped into' stranger. I know he doesn't recognize me, but it's ridiculous, how many times can you bump into the same individual and not realize that there is some connection that needs to be made, how many times can you just ignore the fact that you are bumping into the same person way too often. I can easily put the number of sightings of aforementioned japanese man at close to 100.
Do you have a similar "Stranger" experience in a city you live? Someone who you've never said hello to, never know where he/she lives, works, moves, walks, but generally keep bumping into this person??
Now this post was completely unedited and a verbal dump. But every single word on the blog is heartfelt and honest and 100% true and happening in my life. Should I buy him a cup of coffee next time I see him?
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A book I really like said that no meetings, especially recurring ones happen through mere coincidence...everything happens for a reason and its up to us to recognize the "sign" and do something about it. Coffee and a waffle would go down well I think.
Yes...you should buy him a cup of coffee...same thing has happened to me bunch of times....mainly with seeing pretty women, but i'm too chicken shit to do anything..
There is a film script somewhere in there...just make it a hot Japanese schoolgirl in Kogal with shocking red hair, Hello Kitty accessories, a love for iced green tea and a penchant for Pizzicato Five, waiting in vain for their comeback tour.
he's probably a ninja. so yeah, buy him a cuppa before he does his somersaulting-flapping-smoke-throwing ninja thing, then sticks his samurai sword into you. And I mean that in a totally non-gay-anime-hentai porn kind of way.
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