Lately I’m feeling as if I had nothing to write about. What is a man with a 9:30 to 18:30 job and a yoga habit ought to write about? His romantic relationship, which only takes place on the weekends, is private. The only thing left I have to write about are his dreams.
Jeez, I just remembered I dreamed something important last night. Something I wanted to remember, but it’s not coming through right now. I must make an effort… Nothing came up.
I will consult h0p3’s writing prompts and choose something to write about:
What seemed unusual in your morning commute today?
This morning I didn’t have breakfast, and even though I was a bit late for work, I knew it would be better to grab a snack, otherwise hunger would distract me until lunchtime, so I entered Mercadona and bought a 0% fat 0% sugar (and 100% cancer) yoghurt. As I was coming out the store and drinking from the 1 liter bottle, I saw a tall woman wearing glasses who looked very familiar.
I chalked it off to coming to the office everyday and seeing the same people. However, in the evening I went to yoga and I saw her in the practice room. How could it be that I didn’t recognize her before! She was the tall girl who practices yoga with eyeglasses.
This seems so strange to me. She is an advanced practitioner, so she doesn’t have to look at the instructor to know what she is supposed to do. Why would she choose to wear glasses? Don’t they bother her? Perhaps I ought to ask her.
In any case, this is not what seemed strange to me today. I’m really good at remembering faces, but when I saw this woman outside of her usual context, I was sure I had seen her before, but I didn’t know where. When I saw her at yoga it immediately clicked.
We seem to rely on contextual cues to recognize people too. Put an executive in a janitor uniform and he’d be invisible to many in his own company. Is this because we don’t look at janitors? Or because we can’t match people outside their expected context?
Heh, that’s strange, despite having a routine day I found something to write about.