Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Driving to work today I saw this guy on the corner who looked a lot like my friend Jared who died a few years ago in a car wreck. It was strange. To see this man standing on the corner waiting for the light to change so he could cross the street. I wanted to get out of my car and shake him by the shoulders. To say (perhaps a little too loudly) “you don’t understand how fragile your life is!!” Because that is what he reminded me. standing there. looking like the walking dead. As I drove past him and got a better look, I could see that there was no way he could actually look like Jared at all. It was sort of like the time I was in Germany and swore that I saw Bruce Willis get on the train on the opposite side of the tracks. Light and shadow have a way of playing tricks on you . . . they leave things out that your brain fills in. This time, my brain placed Jared into the gaps. What a strange way to start the day – by having a conversation in my head with my dead friend personified by a completely unfamiliar pedestrian.Life has a way of playing tricks on your like that. And I suppose we are left to fill in the blanks.
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