The Law of Attraction

Attraction is something that can’t be explained…nonetheless it follows a logical order.

You see someone from a distance.

As soon as you see them, you notice they are different.

Yet, you don’t make contact immediately…

Sometimes your eyes will meet, sometimes they won’t…

But when you finally start talking, there’ll be no stopping you.

There may be others at shorter distances, with easier conversations…these conveniences don’t matter…

Somehow you end up talking to each other for a long time, not minding getting notebooks and pens out and drawing plans of where you live and how it turns out you used to live five minutes from each other and never knew…

You would take out your heart and place it on the table next to their pint glass if that were possible but get your pencil case out instead to show your colourful pens…they show a particular reaction to red…

Then you walk along the South Bank…after midnight with nothing but rain drops to accompany you…Just because after another night, you walked along the South Bank with another whom you ended up kissing by the Tate doesn’t mean the same will happen again…

The same doesn’t happen again…

You cross the wobbly bridge, get them on No 25 and go home alone.

Back at home, you update your facebook status “…has fallen in love but doubts the feeling will last the night”…after a few minutes and through your boozy stupor, you go back online and change it to “…is questioning the purpose of status updates, having written something very personal and deleted it”.

One friend - one who is still working at 2 in the morning – gets a glimpse of the highly personal nature of your status update before it is deleted and, a little envious, wonders what you were up to at that late hour and hopes the feeling does last the night.

The next day you learn that they have a partner already which explains why it was so easy not to kiss and get on the bus and go home.

Again the next day, you write back to your friend “I fall in love with every men I do a late-night South Bank walk with even if nothing really happens...it's just the peace and lights of the night along this, my favourite, part of London”.