Introduction Page 9
Our story begins the same as how all the other beautiful
things began, bursting of life and a whole lot of mysteries. In
fact, who else would’ve thought it in a voice that was so small and so soft,
anyone could have easily missed . . . but I didn’t, and I heard it all right
down to the tiniest flicker and, in just a few milliseconds later, grew into a
thunderous spark and, when it was already inescapable, exploded out onto
this magnificent blaze, and somewhere within the midst, she was there,
with the most unforgettable radiance of all, and she was looking straight at
me . . . the girl of my dreams. “I knew it was you” was all I could say, and
I knew then I was forever beguiled. Believe me when I say, there was no one
right word to classify her but as simply beyond comparable and brilliantly
radiant in every possible way, but if I must, she reminds me of a candle from
a birthday cake. I mean, she can certainly make everything about my life light
perfectly and absolutely brilliant, and just like your everyday ordinary candle,
one second, she was right in front of me, and the next, poof! She was gone--
just like magic. How can anyone else ever justify the full significance of that
and her being gone? I certainly could not bear the thought, and I felt I had to
do something or else, which I did instantaneously, and soon enough after, I
found myself staring face-to-face with an absolutely different kind of reality.
OK, I’m not trying to be funny here, and I certainly do not want to be a
comedian or anything; but just the same, here’s the punch line: As it turned
out, I was never the one sleeping or even asleep somewhere, nor was I ever the
master of my own dreams. Like I said earlier, somewhere within the blaze, I
was beguiled, and it had never occurred to me that the girl of my dreams was,
in reality, the dreamer of mine, and I was merely the one looking in.
I hope I didn’t confuse you, although sometimes you’ve got to admit that’s
pretty much how life works, and in other times, life has never been about the
rules but whether there was ever even one to begin with.