I just think everyone should know about this

If I remember correctly, I discovered this from pressing the "next blog" button. It has been the single greatest thing thats ever came from me pressing it, usually I get religious blogs or cheesy american family blogs, both varieties fill me with rage. Anyway, they were all worth it, if I had to flick through every single blog in the world, only to find this as the very last one, it would still have been more than worth it.

http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/

Its the blog of a girl who takes messages posted in missed-connections sections of new york newspapers, and turns them into beautiful pictures. I think why I love these so much is that the beauty comes not just from the images she creates for them, but that the messages are actual, genuine words that other people have written. The combination of real life and the picture painted for it, just makes them really special to me.


This is my favourite one so far, because when I read the message, I thought to myself that I always wondered the exact same thing. And not just that, it was just worded so beautifully and felt so genuine and seemed so romantic, it really touched me.

I saw you for maybe a second or two.
I've read missed-connections before and wondered why people just didn't say something then and there. Now I understand... perhaps it's because the moment is extraordinary; containing a fullness of its own... and the thought that this person across from me is not a part of my everyday life, and at any second will disappear, didn't even occur to me... it seemed that we were in whatever it was together, and that sort of connection rarely, if ever, happens between strangers, so my mind was a little slow on registering that there would be no "some other time" if neither of us asked for the others phone or email.

Now, hours later, the ripples created by those few tender seconds still gently rock something within me...
and I become a missed-connections poster.

Would you be interested in having tea or going on a ride?

I hope they enchant you as much as they have me.