Will you walk with me on mondays?

If you believe that there are no free lunch, just let life teach you this: the best things in the world are free. Among those things, I woukd like to focus in one: walking on mondays.

How can such a trivial activity become one the best things that life could offer me. I forgot to tell you that is not walking by itself what inspires me, but the emotional meaning behind it.

Fifteen years ago,  one of my best friends decide to go back to her country. Years passed by and I lost communication with her. I didn't even know whether she was dead or alive. I had no clue what her life was like. The memories of our frienship vanished with time or maybe they were stored deep in my heart. One day I made a business travel to California and during a conversation with someone, suddenly those memories reappeared, urging me to look for her. Hopefully, she would still living in that state.

To my fortune, we now have one of the best tools to look for people: the internet ( I am not going to promote facebook, though many people have find each other by this mean). So, I googled her and finally found her. The first time we talked, it seemed as if the last time we had spoken was the day before. We spend a couple of days meeting after work, talking for long hours, catching up with our lives and reviving old memories. In our last dinner, happiness turned into sadness. "Will I see you again or will we have to wait fifteen years for our next encounter?" I asked her. We knew that our frienship was unique and nor time, neither distance would be able to keep us apart again (I hope you are reading this because I am counting on you to make this work).  

To overcome the sadness of saying goodbye, we made a commitment: every monday we would try to connect to each other in spirit while excercising at a specific hour and we would imagine that the other was at our side. I like to walk around my neighborhood during the evening and she likes to do Yoga on Mondays . "Will you walk with me on mondays during the time of your yoga sessions?"

"Don't be sad"-  she wrote to me by mail later that day- "We will be together again when we exercise on Monday".

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