Missed Connections

There was a story told by my friend back in one of my previous lives about wanting to date a department secretary in their floor. Unfortunately, as he met her, it was her last week at work, as she was a contractual employee. That was the first and last time he ever saw her. Not that it was love at first sight. I could tell from the description that she was a bit interested in him too. However, sometimes, there are moments that never allowed for things to work out due to circumstances that you just couldn't control.

There was also this one time when I was on a footbeat to the mall when I saw a lady walking in the same direction. We were almost walking at the same pace so she was always in peripheral view. She wasn't a supermodel or anything and wasn't in get-go makeup. She was plain but neat. Hair done in ponytail but pinned up. It seems to be the new style nowadays. And she made me think that angels probably go to work on earth as well.

There was a brisk-walking man who whizzed past me, then the lady, causing her to lose her balance a bit and bump me by the shoulder. She apologized aptly and I smiled in acknowledgement, dismissing it.
As we reached a fork in the pathway I went my way and she went the opposite way. And that was that.

Those encounters was what would be more popularly known as a 'Missed Connection'. Whenever I remember that story, I look at how many missed connections actually passed by. There were a couple of good ones actually.

To further my curiosity on this term, I looked it up in google. Lo and behold, I saw a crapload of ads looking for Missed Connections, usually at craigslist (it seems to be the most popular place to look). There were about hundreds of entries, I didn't bother looking at the details of each, and closed the browser.

It's kinda funny coz you realize that this stuff happens almost everyday - in so many occassions that it unconsciously adds to the reason of going out to work more exciting.

And I understand now my personal definition of makati as a city of angels.