The chemistry between us could destroy this place… or trust your guts — Sapore Di Mare
Perfect strangers — term that was always way too romantic for me and therefore way too surrealistic, the kind of phenomenon that you get to know only in the romantic movies (if you are lucky and the plot is not about long time lovers and one of them is sick…)
I was thinking about the chemistry among strangers and realised I can only name one movie or two that give you the proper image of how two strangers can get attached to each other.. not “5 years later…” not when the director takes you to their future lifes, but right there, right at the moment when they meet, the invisible bubble bursts and the most interesting things happen all of a sudden.
The chemistry I am talking about is completely different type, it’s the one that’s born after the bursting of the mentioned bubble, not the one that develops after a while, the one that your guts tell you to go for, right there, maybe without a plan, maybe without any future, just for an hour-long, unforgettable hour-long connection.
Although… do we always trust our guts?! I don’t think so…
and by the way how do you know if you actually should anyway…
I had a case or two like that…. to confess I did not trust that mysterious guts of mine and it proved me wrong… mmm … Again. Every single time, I think I have outgrown it, got older and wiser, but…. Older-Maybe YES, Wiser-No.
I mean how many times should that poor one prove to me that it really gets something, that I should just calm the f**ck down and trust it when it actually says “go for it” or maybe even “No, not now, too late”.
I happen to always go against it and when I do, nothing good happens… So i decided to make a pact to my (apparently) very intelligent and very intuitive Guts:
Dear Guts,
I have a confession and at the same time an apology to make to you.
I did not have faith in you lately, maybe I have never trusted you enough, moreover I totally ignored you several times and misjudged your premonition skills.
So, to make it up to you (and to myself, as I have been the biggest victim of that ignorance) I want to make a public apology to you (and to myself) and promise that I will never ever ignore you and your predictions, which are always a far cry of what I actually do and the outcome I get (especially when I get a little tipsy)
I send this letter to you with much repentance, hoping to be forgiven by you, returning by my side.
Hereby I am attaching the list of the facts proving me wrong and you right (kidding, no way I will ever do that publicly)
Yours Foolishly,
A
Originally published at https://www.saporemare.com on February 14, 2018.