by Jan Wognnugh

Created on: February 21, 2007   Last Updated: May 14, 2007

"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans" at least that is what John Lennon believes in. I share the same birthday as John Lennon, albeit many years apart but it was sufficient reason enough for me to try and find out a little about him by reading off the internet. But that's a story for another. If Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans, then I say life is a tricky and cheeky little bastard, which it apparently is.

Life seems like a seemingly random occurrence, a general composite of everybody's consciousness and what everybody holds to be true and existing. Life is about your friends, or the seemingly random act of running into some of them when you least expect it or the next instant after you seem to have thought about them. And Danny is one such guy who believes in the randomness of life and the signs life seem to be showing him.

Danny worked as an accountant, a dead end job, he commuted daily to work via the subway, the only thing that kept him punctual and going to work on time daily instead of dragging his feet was this particular girl he saw everyday at the same place at the same time on the same section of the platform. He sort of fancied her, in a way where all he needed to lift his Monday blues or lift him out of his everyday misery was the twenty minutes he had on the commute spent admiring her on the platform and in the train before she alighted.

One day, as Danny lay in bed at night, his mind drifted to the girl and he realized how she never even took a second look at him, despite over 3 years of daily brushes as they shared a twenty minute journey of their life everyday with hundreds of other office going bodies as well on the platform and in the subway. First he lamented about his lack of looks, then he lamented his lack of courage. Then he decided to make a deal with "Life". Complaining how Life hasn't been treating him fairly up till now, he said out loud, "Hey Life, if you think I should stop admiring her from a distance and do something about it, show me a sign!" The next morning, all was normal on the subway, she was there as usual, nonchalant and not the least bit interested in Danny or even noticing him for that matter.

That night, Danny once again lamented about his life and how it sucked. He came to the conclusion that Life wanted him to just continue admiring her from a distance and that he shouldn't do anything about much less try to approach her. He couldn't resist tempting fate and

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