Person to Person
Nov. 4th, 2011 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveerverFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
"How do you prepare for meeting people you respect? How do you know what to ask or say?"
I've spent a lot of time the last couple of days, meeting people – new people, people I knew before… and it made me think about meetings with other people.
Yesterday I met a woman I'd known before in a professional capacity, now meeting her in a different professional capacity… and yes, I was professional, but I was also human, meeting her as an equal, person to person – soul to soul.
Today, I met a man that I had never met before – same professional capacity, met him in exactly the same way… and only now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, do I think that it was kind of odd – but felt right at the same time. It was a good meeting, a good interview, because technically that's what it was though I didn't feel any of the usual nervousness, just felt comfortable and confident. I felt the mutual respect. It was a good feeling.
It set me to thinking about meeting other people – people that others might see as 'famous' or however you want to put it. The very first time I met someone like that, (and by met, I mean sat and talked with, not bumped into or went and had a photo op or anything like that, I mean genuinely talked). I was hellish nervous – all shaking and trembly… I laugh at myself now, because now it's just… like normal, person to person, soul to soul. Sure there's the respect angle, and maybe that's exaggerated a little bit because of how much other people don't and I somehow want to make up for that, but still… person…soul…
On a completely unrelated note, sometimes it's good to miss a bus. If I had been on the bus that I missed today, I would have been involved in a really bad accident. Someone was looking out for me today.
Once for each thing. Just once; no more.
And we too, just once. And never again.
But to have been this once, completely,
even if only once; to have been
at one with the earth,
seems beyond undoing.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
"How do you prepare for meeting people you respect? How do you know what to ask or say?"
I've spent a lot of time the last couple of days, meeting people – new people, people I knew before… and it made me think about meetings with other people.
Yesterday I met a woman I'd known before in a professional capacity, now meeting her in a different professional capacity… and yes, I was professional, but I was also human, meeting her as an equal, person to person – soul to soul.
Today, I met a man that I had never met before – same professional capacity, met him in exactly the same way… and only now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, do I think that it was kind of odd – but felt right at the same time. It was a good meeting, a good interview, because technically that's what it was though I didn't feel any of the usual nervousness, just felt comfortable and confident. I felt the mutual respect. It was a good feeling.
It set me to thinking about meeting other people – people that others might see as 'famous' or however you want to put it. The very first time I met someone like that, (and by met, I mean sat and talked with, not bumped into or went and had a photo op or anything like that, I mean genuinely talked). I was hellish nervous – all shaking and trembly… I laugh at myself now, because now it's just… like normal, person to person, soul to soul. Sure there's the respect angle, and maybe that's exaggerated a little bit because of how much other people don't and I somehow want to make up for that, but still… person…soul…
On a completely unrelated note, sometimes it's good to miss a bus. If I had been on the bus that I missed today, I would have been involved in a really bad accident. Someone was looking out for me today.
