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Unexpected prophecies
A few years ago - I mean, it was 2013 - I consciously noticed this scent for the first time. That was in high summer at an open air near the forest, pretty much in the center of the republic. Despite an estimated two thousand visitors, the atmosphere was overall very pleasant and familiar, due to the green idyll and tall shady mixed forest groves. Well, I have to admit: the community around the party makers is known to me and I am more or less a part of it. But still: the atmosphere felt very free and relaxed. There was this invisible cloud of relaxation, empathy, and awareness of the specialness of the situation hovering over everything.
In moments when you perceive this aura live and are so happy that it's there, it often ebbs away shortly after. Probably because expectations begin to grow exponentially ad hoc as soon as the perceptions described occur. I guess in about 10%* of the cases this flight of fancy lasts and the party stays in the memory. About 1%* of the time, the hours that follow exceed expectations. The upside of this, this will henceforth form a pillar in cortex and cortex. The disadvantage: as soon as the described advantage occurs, very long afterwards many parties and happenings are inevitably measured against it, which is in a way unfair to subsequent events and their almost unfulfillable prophecy.
In the present case the peculiarity of the circumstances was largely forced by an encounter with a good acquaintance.
I was standing at the bar, had just gotten my drink, and that very acquaintance came straight at me from the direction of the dance floor, with a small crowd around her. We had not seen each other for a long time at this point and greeted each other accordingly warmly and exuberantly. In doing so, of course, we become relatively close. We chatted briefly. After ten minutes, I went dancing. She went somewhere else. Already on the way to the dance floor everything was a little different for me than before, I thought. Even while dancing, I couldn't shake this feeling. The green of the trees was stronger, the sky was bluer, the music was better and the people around me were even more cheerful.
I blamed it on the general feeling of well-being, but felt an urge within me to see my acquaintance again as soon as possible. I began to look for her in the grounds. Found her quite quickly and was all the more pleased. We talked more and more and soon I noticed that one question was burning more and more under my nails. I must say, that acquaintance has Spanish roots, black half-long hair and a very winning smile. The scent she wore I would never have attributed to her type before. She wore it, however, with such nonchalance that she henceforth epitomized what wearing a perfume associates for me with a most unpretentious yet eccentric sense of self.
I noticed that the feeling of approximate perfection triggered in me was also prevalent in her and she radiated a perpetual joy, knowing that I was the same. She retrieved a small glass bottle from her pocket and sprayed a spritz from it on each of my wrists.
Two months later, on a holiday trip to Mauritius, I bought this fragrance in the duty free. Every time I put it on, I think of that day in the summer of 2013. Unexpected and implausible, yet inevitable.
*corresponds to a retrospective, subjective probability assessment, on average
In moments when you perceive this aura live and are so happy that it's there, it often ebbs away shortly after. Probably because expectations begin to grow exponentially ad hoc as soon as the perceptions described occur. I guess in about 10%* of the cases this flight of fancy lasts and the party stays in the memory. About 1%* of the time, the hours that follow exceed expectations. The upside of this, this will henceforth form a pillar in cortex and cortex. The disadvantage: as soon as the described advantage occurs, very long afterwards many parties and happenings are inevitably measured against it, which is in a way unfair to subsequent events and their almost unfulfillable prophecy.
In the present case the peculiarity of the circumstances was largely forced by an encounter with a good acquaintance.
I was standing at the bar, had just gotten my drink, and that very acquaintance came straight at me from the direction of the dance floor, with a small crowd around her. We had not seen each other for a long time at this point and greeted each other accordingly warmly and exuberantly. In doing so, of course, we become relatively close. We chatted briefly. After ten minutes, I went dancing. She went somewhere else. Already on the way to the dance floor everything was a little different for me than before, I thought. Even while dancing, I couldn't shake this feeling. The green of the trees was stronger, the sky was bluer, the music was better and the people around me were even more cheerful.
I blamed it on the general feeling of well-being, but felt an urge within me to see my acquaintance again as soon as possible. I began to look for her in the grounds. Found her quite quickly and was all the more pleased. We talked more and more and soon I noticed that one question was burning more and more under my nails. I must say, that acquaintance has Spanish roots, black half-long hair and a very winning smile. The scent she wore I would never have attributed to her type before. She wore it, however, with such nonchalance that she henceforth epitomized what wearing a perfume associates for me with a most unpretentious yet eccentric sense of self.
I noticed that the feeling of approximate perfection triggered in me was also prevalent in her and she radiated a perpetual joy, knowing that I was the same. She retrieved a small glass bottle from her pocket and sprayed a spritz from it on each of my wrists.
Two months later, on a holiday trip to Mauritius, I bought this fragrance in the duty free. Every time I put it on, I think of that day in the summer of 2013. Unexpected and implausible, yet inevitable.
*corresponds to a retrospective, subjective probability assessment, on average
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