Ever notice how ironic life can be???
One minute you are sitting in a Red Lobster, perfectly content, and several hours laer; not able to remember how you could ever be happy with "content?" How you can love your simple, healthy life one minute, then be completely engorged in the concept of a new one???
I met Bono last weekend.....yeah...as in Bono...the biggest rock start in the world (or close!). My girlfriends decided we should stalk the band the night before a conert just to see if we could find them....well, we did, along with about 75 other very lucky people.
While waiting in the rain, I began chatting with people, the way I do. I have always been able to talk to strangers and make friends quickly. And well, I quickly made friends with a guy from Minneapolis. And somewhere between U2 playing "Magnificent" and "One," we just.....connected. Something changed in our chit chat. We simply clicked. We stood there, in the rainy, cold evening, waiting for our chance to meet some of the most influential people in the world and saw something in one another.
So.... meeting in the rain? check..... Eyes meeting across a crowd of people? Check.... Music in the background? check...... Havng an incredible time with tons of energy and excitement? check..... this should all be going well right? Except one thing.....my awesome husband and daughter back home........shit......
I ended my meeting with this awesome person on a very G rated note...I did not do anything with this man that I could not tell my husband about...
So what the hell was that?
One one hand I am greatful to know that I can still connect with people, and was given the chance to have that reinforced within me. On the other hand, I wonder if I was being tested. There was a time I would have been all over that opportunity...I have always been of the belief that lessons in life are repeated until learned....was this one of those moments?
Does U2 actually have that kind of power? Can you meet a stanger on a dark and stormy night and have it change you forever? Is there such thing as a "magnificent one?"
Food for thought anyways.....
