wish i had met you then too

met someone at a bookstore this afternoon and it's only now at the close of another day that i got to appreciate what he said as he was leaving - i wish i had met you then.

i don't want to make it about me but about how we affect other people or how people perceive us through what we tell them or the thoughts we share with them.

okay, i'll admit that it made me feel good.
but not at the moment that he said it.
just tonight and it could not have come at a better time.
cause i had a not so good week and what he said just made me accept the bad with the good things which also happened in the same week.

and if only one person gets to read this post, i know she would understand what this is all about. for she is in my life right now for whatever reasons we need to be together - not only for myself but also for herself.

i will backtrack a bit about why this person i spent a very short time at the bookstore made me do this post. he had asked me to recommend a book he could give a friend as a gift for graduation. he said he wanted a book which was somewhat "deep" but not that difficult to read.
so i told him about just one book, and yes, it's currently being read by this girl in my life right now. and without asking for a second one he decided to buy it.

does it make sense now that i would decide to do this post ?

how many people would take our word without even knowing us ?
then again maybe i did make an impression on him ?
but consider this - we got to know just a bit more about each other after he had paid for the book.
and as he was leaving he blurted out how he wished he had known me when i was living in the place he's going back to (and where he would be living cause he's from there).

thank you, bandar. wish i had met you then too. but your saying it has made me appreciate the past week's bad and good moments.


and, yes, i got to see the last few moments of "lost" and just enough to know what it was all about.