I’ve been passing some hard times lately… you know those times when everything goes wrong… I was on the edge of falling into some sort of depression when I had a conversation (I consider one sentence a whole conversation when it touches my feelings) with (believe it or not) a stranger.

I was driving my brother to the airport… he left again after a veryyy short vacation this time… I was staring at where he was walking till his last traces disappeared inside the terminal gate (God, How I hate goodbyes…!)

I felt the familiar coldness invading my inner feelings, merging with the coldness of the morning breeze across my face and pushing me to the edge…

I have enough depression from my breaking up… and having my closer brother leaving again was the last thing I needed in the meanwhile.

I didn’t notice the tear that escaped my eyes or even the sigh I made except when “his” sentence crossed my ears… “Don’t’ cry… even if you never saw him again… be glad he’s stayed in your life for a while… “

I looked at where the sound came from… and I found a very old man… almost 70 years old smiling at me… I stared at him for a while… then an officer came asking me to leave because this wasn’t a parking area… I looked back to the old man… smiled back at him… and left…

As I was driving my way back I thought of what the old man said… and I had a thought of my ex-love again… and I smiled to myself…

Yes… I felt glad…

I’m glad I’ve had my brother so close to me all the past years…

I’m glad I went through that relation… even though it didn’t work out perfectly at the end… but I’m glad I felt the beauty of love…

And… I’m glad I met that old man…

Amazing how some people can touch a part deep inside you without even noticing they did…!

                          Rehab Ragaee

                            (Feeling better)

p.s.

I’ve been humming one of my favorite songs for some while now; particularly this phrase…

 

“I’m glad I didn’t know the way it all would end… the way it all would go…

Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain but I’d had to miss the dance…”

 

Follows goes the whole lyrics of the song… it is called “The dance” by “Garth Brook”…

One last thing… I read this quote somewhere before… it touches…

“Love has its own time, season and reason. You can’t ask for it to stay. You can only embrace it when it comes and be glad that for a moment in your Life, it was yours.”

GARTH BROOKS

“The Dance“

 

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared beneath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you’d ever say goodbye

 

And now I’m glad I didn’t know
The way it all would end… the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance

 

I could have missed the pain
But I’d had to miss the dance

Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn’t I a king
But if I’d only known how the king would fall
Hey who’s to say 

 

You know I might have changed it all

And now I’m glad I didn’t know
The way it all would end… the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance 

 

I could have missed the pain
But I’d had to miss the dance

Yes my life is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain but I’d had to miss the dance