Just Walk

It was a sort of revelation, looking across a table at someone, watching their lips move, and realising that you weren’t listening to one single word and in fact did not care that you weren’t. Outside the door the world was revolving and new were things happening and yet you sat here, with this person, and you were missing it. Missing all the adventure that was happening just outside this building, just across the street, just over the next hill… So in her mind she got up, left him sitting there at the table with the coffee stains and spilled sugar, gaping at her like a fish out of water because he couldn’t believe the audacity. And in her mind she walked out the door and continued walking, got in her car and drove and drove, until the road became part of the sky and she felt like she was speeding up into heaven and away from it all, into her dreams. The sudden jingle of the store’s doorbell yanked her back into the present, where she sat staring at a man who was still talking to himself, about himself, oblivious of the fact that her heart was a million miles away and flying. She looked into his eyes and couldn’t see herself and for the first time made the decision to go find her dream. So she got up with a mumbled apology and left him there, gaping like a fish…