Life's Crossroads

Another Monday morning meeting, another opportunity on my way… Two years passed since I started my own business and flourished it from no customer to atleast 5 new customers a week. An interesting, err rather motivating way of looking at my business. How else can I keep my enthusiasm flowing to meet all those boring prospective clients on all these beautiful mornings? 

Again a red light! Nothing is horrible than waiting at a red light when you have an appointment in another ten minutes.

Look at everyone, walking steadfast with coffee in one hand and brief in another.  Their faces are like a tree during the middle of fall, not even a single trace of happiness. I wonder what’s the next deadline waiting for them, maybe it’s their boss or maybe they are self-made entrepreneurs like me.

Two more blocks and my fingers are crossed. Hail the god driving away in that sexy Ferrari; a vacant parking space just gotten ready for me. Five more minutes…

I locked my car and turned back, ready to enter the supposed building. At that exact moment, I saw a girl, the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life. She is wearing a blue jeans and a white top, walking with grace of an angel. As she passed by, she looked at me for a moment and time stopped.

Everything around me slowed down and I stood there like an unmovable snow drop on a leaf. I knew if there has to be a soul mate for me, here she is.

She entered into a coffee shop on the other side of the road of my supposed destination.  A million neurons started shooting in my mind to decide which way to go. Time once again slowed down.

What is important for me, I thought.

Business it should be, after all going behind her can be just like going behind a fantasy, into an unknown destination.

I rushed into the building to meet the client. After 5 coffees breaks and 50 slides of power point, we came into an agreement. The deal is closed and my decision proved to be correct, I have won!

It’s almost lunch time and let me go and check that coffee shop. There is a negligible chance for her to be still there but she might be working there and I want to play my chances. Now that I have already won this deal, there is nothing to lose if I give her a try.

I started crossing the street when a speeding car breaking a red signal jumped onto me, several people surrounded me and within seconds everything went pitch black amidst people whispering, “A terrible death!”

Suddenly I came back to senses, this time amidst a vision of my own death and soaking in my own sweat.  She is almost at the entrance of the coffee shop about to go inside. The neurons shooting to inside to make a decision of which way to go….

What is important for me if I am going to die in next few hours, I thought.

With a smile on my face and never experienced joy and clarity in my life, I started off towards the coffee shop.