Love is not blind, it sees more not less; but because it sees more it chooses to see less. Ziehan captivated my heart with her girl next-door demeanor. It could have happened twenty-seven years ago. Then, neither more nor less, I saw none. Try as I might, she simply did not feature in any form from the back of my fragile memory. And for all that I could remember, I saw none of her. When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created…created first in the mind and will, created next by chance. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the chance and choice of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

The chances we had back in school were never meant to be. For the past twenty-seven years, we lived upon our lives in parallel path. One totally obscure to the other, the divide between us had never been beyond a proximity exceeding a 5 kilometers radius. There might have been chances to grace the attention of this lady twenty-seven years ago. But back then; opportunity was missed by most people because it was dressed in school uniform and all the time it looks like student.

God had revealed to me now what he did not then. I exercised my choice and took that chance. Ziehan was seated diagonally across my table when we first met. We intimated our conversation with an occasional glance at each other. A cup of coffee later, I was a man totally smitten. Talking about which, nobody made coffee like I did then. With six sachets too many sugar, my coffee was none the sweetest.

Emboldened by a resolve to pursue a strange unchartered feeling, she became my enchanted new frontier. When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces and faculties become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

“Live your life to the fullest, take every opportunity that arises because you'll have plenty of time to sleep when you are dead.” – SirCumALot

To Be Continued….