thecompassrose

Have you ever met someone who you could not get off your mind? I have, several times, but significantly less as I’ve matured through my adolescence. I met an angel last Thursday. I was getting my hair cut by my new barber who often introduces me to the lovely ladies whom he works with, there was one particular one this day. His assistant for the day, dressed in jeans, flip flops and a v-neck, white t-shirt.  I remember how I shied away from her eyes, as I smiled wanting to keep gazing at them. At first I very nonchalantly introduced myself and gave her my hand as a hello in an awkward position from the barber’s chair, but then my favorite part was, she stood around me, like a moon in a clear sky, shining her light on me, and I hopelessly distracted gazed at her, with hardly a word to speak and I’m sure my voice may have trembled early in conversation, but today that didn’t matter. Shortly after I discovered she was 80% deaf. Now this I found odd about myself but that made her more attractive to me.  Perhaps it’s the fact that she has obviously overcome some hardship to live a normal life by adapting to read lips, my admiration for this must have shown through me. Never the less, this gave her character, it distinguished her from other girls, not simply was she beautiful but has a strong will.

I sit at my desk now, imagining a frame to the left of my monitor of a picture of me and she in the type of picture that looks like it came with the frame, ludicrously radiant and happy, and I remember the times she came back to perhaps do the same I was, gaze. And throw in a girl’s opinion on trimming the front edges of my hair line. I’ll see her again, I wonder: what can I do to make my hair grow faster?