Alice

Today it was a good day. I didn’t do any special thing, just walk around Rio de Janeiro streets (well, being here is special!) but, newly, luck is on my route and I found a good people again. This time, I’m talking about Alice. She’s from Sweden but she lives in Australia. Today, we met at the begining of my day and we spent the day together. We had lunch in a small sushi bar -the logo looks like an icecream shop: it mistook us first!. Really, I saw Alice in Iguazú (Argentina) but we do not talk, no looks, no comunication. I thought that she was a girl traveling alone (bravo for her!), viewing the life with her clean eyes, living with interest to knowing, and at the end, searching the next hosting on the computer, and me, in that moment, sitting behind her, writting about my great weekend at Sol’s house in Buenos Aires.

Days after, concidences of fate, I found her again. This time in Rio de Janeiro -here-.

There is a book called «The yellow world» (-I’ve translated the title, I don’t know if is there an english version-), written by Albert Espinosa, who talks about «yellow people». It means that, you don’t know why, neither how, but there are some people all around world -or in your neighborhood maybe-, not too much -he wrote in book that only 23 in life (it’s a magic number for him)-, which in a short moment will become in a part of you, probably as a part of your soul, but always, to the rest of your life, as a new «yelow» of you

It’s not necessary that you call, visit, etc., him/her, and probably you only will see him/her once in your life, or never (chatting by internet, for exemple) but in any case, you’ll have a special connection with the «yellows»… and it doesn’t mean necessarily sex, love, or a normal and simply friendly relationship: it could be or not, it could be all of this concepts, some or any of them at the same time. It could happens with people of your same sex or not. This is a new category of relationship and is situated upper of the others levels. No matter if time passes, yellows remaining.

This kind of people has special connection with you. This kind of people are special, at least, for you

Today, when Alice was talking me, after the sushi bar, over coffe, I didn’t tell her but I felt that she was becoming in my new «yellow» in this world. She’s special. She were showing me a beautiful part of her, forgetting the «functional» girl, naked part of her soul and putting it on hands.

Today, for me, it was a good day in Río. Today, I shared my day with Alice and I knew her -and she to me-. Once again, the essential things of the life appearing in my sabbatical tour. With pleasure, I stopped the world for her.

Now, while I’m writting this text I’m seing her, passing front of the reception desk, wearing a nice dress. She’s more than a beautiful a woman.

Alice’s mom must be very proud of her daughter… she will stop the world for her! (Both…).

Río de Janeiro (Brasil) 28 de Julio, 2011