The Power of Attraction

Attraction's a funny old game innit.....

have you ever wondered why you seem to loose you're mind when you become attracted to someone and eventually find out that they aren't the kind of person you want to be around after all?

Don't be too hard on yourself..... It’s all down to an unspoken fantasy world that no one admits nor talks about.... it’s a universally denied fact of human thinking....

well, when I say unspoken - till now!!!

Imagine with me this.....

Papers, reports and a diary are strewn on the table before him; a couple of books are marked and open face down. This highly intelligent and usually very diligent man is unable of holding a coherent thought.... a woman is seated in the same railway carriage, jst across the aisle. After looking impassively out of the window for a while, she turned her attention to a pile of magazines and begins to flick thro' them..... She reminds the man of a portrait he saw once, which made him feel strangely moved and saddened, in a museum a few years ago.

He scrutinises her with the same interest, noticing her short brown hair, she's wearing jeans, a pair of trainers and a canary yellow V neck sweater over a white T-shirt. He also notices an incongruously large watch on her pale freckled wrist. He imagines running his hand thro' her chestnut hair, caressing the back of her neck, sliding his hand inside the sleeve of her jumper, watching her fall asleep beside him, her lips slightly agape. His mind wanders more, to imagine living with her in a house in south London, in a cherry-tree lined street he speculates that she maybe a cellist or a graphic designer or a doctor specialising in genetic research.

His mind turns over strategies for conversation. He considers asking her for the time, for a pencil, for directions to the loo's, for reflections on the weather, for a look at one of her magazines. He longs for a train crash, in which their carriage would be thrown into one of the vast barley fields thro' which they are passing. In the chaos, he would guide her safely outside, and repair with her to a nearby tent set up by the ambulance service, where they would be offered lukewarm tea and stare into each other's eyes. Years later, they would attract interest by revealing that they had met in the tragic Edinburgh to London express collision.

But because the train seems disinclined to derail, and the man knew that possibility was a touch absurd, he cleared his throat, leant over to ask the angel if she might have a spare ball-point pen. Its a simple act but to him it feels like he's jumping off the side of a very high bridge and what lies below is unknown....

The power of attraction can interrupt anyone, at any hour, even great minds and powerful people fall victim to its charms. So powerful is its command that it can demand the sacrifice of... health, wealth, status and even happiness...... now that's what i call FAITH and HOPE!!