01 October 2009

Stranger

It is a silent morning.

Too quiet that I could hear my own breathing
Counting down my own pulses and they are pulsating at 100 beats per minute.

The palpitation of my own heart is so strong now that I feel a bit giddy as I stand up looking for the light switch in the bathroom.

I catch my own reflection on the mirror and a stranger is standing there staring at me looking rather intense. For a while it is as if we're having a staring contest. He looks rather shaky to me and I bet I could take him down with a low hook swing across his right ribs.

However this morning I think I'm gonna leave him alone.
I'm not going to give him the fight he can't possibly win.

8 comments:

Pat Ong said...

Hey, hold it there!
Don't even think of whacking the helpless stranger...
For haven't you heard?
Strangers are merely friends we haven't met.
Be kind to him, will ya? ;)

Carrie Tai said...

Stranger?

How are you? It's been long time I didn't visit ur blog....

Sir Pök Déng said...

I'm reading this post again and again in order to interpret who (or what) that stranger was. I came out into two hypotheses:
(1) He's a crack who stoned on too much marijuana.
(2) He's a ghost (seriously).
(3) He's you. The other you who shows himself in the mirror -- as a matter of metaphors that you're fighting your other self.

Okay I need a cup of coffee. Bye.

Anonymous said...

I know that stranger I sometimes see in the mirror. He used to be me at some point in time. It's been so long I've forgotten how he look like.

Pill Pusher said...

Pat: That stranger was my own reflection.

Ched: I'm good thank you. Congrats on your wedding.

SPD: Cool hypothesis. I go with the third.

Bangkai: Sounds like you've found your inner peace. Don't let him return.

Pat Ong said...

Dr T, what made you think I misunderstood you altogether? :D

Was it because I suggested for you not to whack, but be kind to your goodself?! I meant it, I do! Now repeat after me..."I. MUST. BE. KIND. TO. MYSELF!" ;)

Anonymous said...

Unlike me this morning, at least you didn't scream at the sight of your own reflection in the mirror *laughs*

Relax, Doc. Keep the faith that things always have a way of working out in the end.

Pill Pusher said...

Pat: I know that you knew that I know that you knew that i know.

Andrea: Oh yes baby.. I'm keeping the faith all right. Bon jovi sent me the memo 12 years ago.