Barcelona/one month ago |
I need to know what happened with the
offer.
Eh?
The offer! You know – Patrick.
What?
Patrick, the garage, the offer – you know –
the angel.
Oh, the angel – why didn’t you say so?
I did.
No you didn’t, you said ‘offer’ and
‘Patrick’ and ‘garage’.
Ok, ok, so what happened?
Well….Patrick was wise enough to recognise
a golden opportunity when it arrived but astute enough to know that it was only
fools that rushed in. In his experience golden opportunities arrived either
never, or once in a lifetime.
True that. So, what did he say?
“Do you mean go back to when I was 36, just
before Jack was born, or a year earlier before he was conceived…. or further
back, before we were thinking about him?”
Hmmm, interesting - the mind prickles at
the possibilities. What did the Angel say?
The angel said nothing.
I bet Patrick said more!
He did – “Or do you mean go back to when I
was in my twenties, single and unattached?”
I bet the angel said something then!
Yep.
What?
“Your choice”.
Wow!
The angel was little more than a hovering
wave of energy and light at this point.
Cool, but hard choice for Patrick I bet.
There were a lot of things to consider –
what would happen to those around him as a result of his choice for one.
Good point, so…?
The conversation continued – “If I can choose,
I need time to think about it, five minutes ago I was thinking more about NOT
going forward, going back was far from my thoughts.”
“That’s reasonable”, the vision started to
fade, “take a week, consider carefully and I’ll check mid-week to see how it’s
going”
A week’s not a long time for a big decision
like this.
You don’t want to waste time though if you
get a chance to live things again.
Fair point.
Besides something else happened.
Really, what?
Well, the angel vanished.
Patrick was alone.
Yep; and naked.
Under the willow tree and the glorious night
sky.
Yep, and for the first time in over a year
he had the first real feeling of hope.
Yeah, but I bet that was when the neighbour
drove up and his car headlights swung over Patrick’s naked torso!
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