I was walking to work in the frigid 7am weather treading cautiously on the slippery snow. Looking downwards, at your footsteps or the ground right ahead, makes you think about where you are and where you have been, i suppose. And i was musing of things past and present without paying attention to my thoughts. Another pair of footsteps came into the frame and i looked up and saw an old man, silvery snow crystals on his silvery beard. He seemd cold. Not just from the weather but also from within. Perhaps he was reflecting at his life while watching himself walk on the snow and didn't recall much happiness, perhaps he was musing what else would fate and future bring, and the prospects didn't seem those of warmth and happiness. And perhaps it was nothing at all, perhaps he just missed not having a cup of coffee in his hand. It was a fleeting glance after all, i could tell everything and it might be everything or it might be absolutely nothing. But the fleeting glance held for a second capturing my attention. I must have reminded him of something since there was a glimmer of recognition in his eyes. And no, i had never seen this man before, i have a strong memory for faces. But, i think he recalled something from his past looking at me. I wondered, will decades from now, i will experience a similar moment. Did i feel a deja vu, not from something in the past, but something that may or rather WILL happen to me when i have greyed? Will i walk past a young guy when i am old and who will remind me of my youth and what will that reminiscence do to me? Retro Deja Vu - i don't know if it makes sense but i does justice to capturing what i felt. Have you ever experienced a moment of incomparable happiness tinged with the feeling that this moment is ephemeral, and the price you are paying for this moment is yearnings for the rest of your life? Retro Deja Vu too ?
