"Hi my name is Mia, its so good to meet you..."

I love meeting new people, it opens up this whole new world. One you would never have been allowed to pry into under any other circumstances.
Its an invitation to take a trip along someone else's time line, to be a part of their story.
Its a common thread that links us as individuals - we all share this ability to influence and change one another's lives.

We teach one another about ourselves: paint by numbers in a sense, joining the dots where our similarities and differences fill in the gaps that lie between us, washing over us, and converging in this warm acknowledgment of one's self in another's eyes. An un obscured, unbiased mirror.

To be able to laugh until you're cheeks ache with a complete stranger, sans inhibition, is one of the small gifts we so often brush off without the faintest idea of the tiny gem we've let slip through our fingers.

Familiarity in a voice or a gesture, features on our anatomy become part of one another's perceptions and memories, linking us in the subtlety of the unconscious daily motion we exude.

Our eyes and senses drink one another in with our first handshake. Already we've left small nuances behind without even being aware of it. And just like that we've forged a timeless bond. A bubble captured and stored - unique to that place and that moment we've shared. So accessible but too often so easily buried and forgotten...

"Hi my name is Mia, (I'll miss you and remember this day 10 years from now - or maybe I won't, I guess we'll just have to wait and see....) "