Barefoot

I remember one rainy morning when I was sitting on the backseat of my Mercedes. My driver picked me up earlier than the usual. I wasn’t mad at him, no. I thought it was great so I could get to the office earlier than the usual. But when I got into the car I asked him if we could drive around for a bit. I like rain. I wanted to go to the park and have a cup of espresso at the patio outside the café on the bridge.

I asked him to wait for me and he walked me carrying the umbrella. I hate it cause when he does it he always sings “Under my umbrella, ella-ella-ella…” Rihanna’s song, you know. It’s cute but he makes me smile and I don’t like that. He’s my driver. That’s it. He’s supposed to take me where I want, not make me smile.

Anyways, I got a seat at my favorite table and waiter brought me my drink without asking what I wanted. He knows. There was no other client in there except me. The rain was pouring down against the asphalt and it hypnotized me. I looked on the other side. I looked down on the water; it was so hypnotizing, I felt strange.

I lit up a cigarette and reached my hand out to feel the rain. Each drop was so clean on my hand. And as it fell down it was mixing up with the dirty water in the channel. Somehow I got this thought that every drop is another day in my life. Each day is a drop on its own. Some days its crystal pure, other times it’s dull… turbid.

Perhaps, each soul is a vessel. When it feels up by my age of 25, it can already make sense to check its transparency…

“Its time. Its time to get going back to the car and start this day. My last sip of coffee and I’m out of here.” – I thought to myself.

But when Xavier opened the door for me to get in I stopped. I stopped for a second and told him I wanted to go for a walk. I wanted to feel those drops and walked in the rain. I took off my Louboutin shoes and walked barefoot. I was pure. I was beautiful.

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1. Sun Says:
   April 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

   That such a pure call of the soul! i like u for your honesty! it seemed to me as if u glanced up in my soul! u know what i mean!