When you just look back

While I was being online in one evening (as usual), I got a chat message from an old friend of mine (looking back, it’s been almost 10 years!). There was someone who wanted to contact to me, but this person couldn’t reach me, for some reason.

After I got the Skype name of this person, I sent a contact request. The response was rather quick. The guy was in Vienna for a visit, but got kicked out of the place he was staying at, and was looking for a place to stay.

So the person was a friend of my good old friend. And yet, I never actually met this person. I must confess that I hesitated for a moment. But when I asked myself which choice would make me less regretful (or rather content), letting him stay at my place seemed to be rather a good choice.

So next evening, we met each other for the first time (at least in person). He seemed to be a nice person. I really enjoyed the jokes (of which the kind you probably do not talk at work)..

We had to organize what time to be in the flat. Next day, he already found another place to stay. We ended up discussing various issues in the World; the kind of the discussion which not many people would do (at least from my experience). The discussion felt as if it was helping out finding my own idea (which I believe is the original concept of discussion).

He came, and gone. It was really a short time, but I certainly enjoyed conversation with him. I try to think and do as, “if you wonder whether or not to take an action, it’s better to take that action for you to be content after all, on average”. I’m glad I did take that action, and hope I’d do the same next time.