Okay, I met this guy on the bus.
Like... he smiled at me really big when I walked on and I figured he goes to my school and is headed there too, 'cause why else would he do that? And then he kept looking at me and attempting to talk to me, but I had reading to do. So I kept on reading.
Then when we got off the bus and got to university and I was walking to my class, he caught up to me and started talking.
So we talk for a bit... we were headed in the same direction, so he walks me to class.
And we have the basic conversation like "What program/year are you in?" "How was your Reading Week?"
But... at the end, when I ask him his name, he refuses to tell me.
And he's like "Let's just have a relationship without a name."
And I'm like "Okay, we're not having any kind of relationship... there's already a name for what we are and that's acquaintances. And if we don't know each other's names, then I don't think we're even that... we're strangers."
But still, he won't tell me his name. So I'm like "Okay, can I give you a name? Then at least next time I see you, I can be like "Hi Mark!" or whatever." And he says that a name is meaningless and that to label something is to negate it, and guess who said that? Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher. And I'm like... yeah, I know who Kierkegaard is, but isn't it funny how we know
his name?
Anyway... so he refused to tell me his name.
Then I'm like "Okay, that's fine. I guess I'll see you around" (we have a small campus, so I'm sure I'll see him again). He goes like "Oh, yeah.. I'm always here." I go "Like what, everyday? 'Cause I'm here every day." He's like "No, no, not everyday...
always."
Ajeeb.
