‘On the Music On the Movement’ - 3rd August 2020

When I was a student at the Art University, there was a classmate who only shared the metal workshop. He was a British guy from Jamaica originally, and we were not that close as our common ground was this practical-based workshop of once a week program. We kind of knew simply our faces.

‘Let’s go for a walk. I feel down since I recently broke up with my girlfriend. You remind me of her a bit so I would feel good by spending time with you.’

**Later on he showed me a photograph of her, but she looked very different from me in my opinion. She had a clear characteristic feature with an expressive face. Meanwhile, I was a kind of rather passive introverted girl who preferred to be in her own imagination. From my own judgment, I was a typical oriental girl.

To the truth, I thought that I don’t want any more unnecessary ‘tasks’ on my shoulders as I had so much work to do at the university, as well as I simply didn’t know him that well. Though there was something about his status that I thought I had better-taking care of.

‘OK!, but I am so busy with my projects, so maybe we can have a walk after school a bit.’

More than my expectation, I learned a lot from this walking and the interaction with him. Our walkings were not normal. First of all, he avoided anything ‘normal’ or ‘standard’ from his current views. We avoided the main paths that most of the students from our uni were taking. 

‘I know something. Right now I should not do what I used to do. I should go beyond that.’ We even avoided deciding our purpose of going ‘where to’.

After repeating these ‘unusual’ walks, I started to enjoy our walks taking as a kind of a computer game program. When we found a mysterious stranger on the way, we followed him/her as if being in a movie of the James Bond, and created, explored our imaginative life story about the stranger.

Humans are interesting. We carefully would observe not only the outfits and the way they would walk, but also how they would shop, which vegetable to pick and how they judge one by the way they touch, smell, and when they would smile alone with their own actions.

We would discover a lot through those detective moves. 

What were you doing then? You might ask. I guess we were trying to take off our personal ‘perception’. As he said above ‘going beyond’, we were hoping to see the world in a fresh new manner, in order to stand up on two feet again after the break-up from his girlfriend, in order to understand oneself. In order to get over and go beyond.

After a short while, he decided to take a year break from the uni and left for ‘the world trip’. He decided all very fast. 

I met him once after he came back from his adventure, ‘the world trip’. I still remember now how he showed up smiling fully with his new hippy appearance. He traveled from one country to the other by buying the last moment discount tickets, or by helping and being helped various people on the way, always bought a ‘one-way ticket’ but managed to be back his home.

When I am confused about my next move in my life, I sometimes think of this story.

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‘Written in the Star’ - 3rd August 2020