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Toronto airport, 3.12.2009 @hf

Notes about this encounter in the airport of Toronto, Canada:

“For the young men at the airport, the spirit of conviviality and experimentation is very strong. They are not yet tied to specifics of life (material culture, marriage, career, locales). If they can keep that charming openness as they develop attachments – as they ‘become famous’ or, indeed, ‘become’ anything – that’s the key. I look at these three faces and would be happy to know any of them: the smiles, the exuberance, the sense that an international air terminal is a safe haven. With the world getting smaller every second, here’s to making 2010 and all points of the compass cooperative and stable.”

Allys Palladino-Craiq, Director of Museum at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Added comment:

If there could be a truer call of life then these three fellows, I don’t know.

They asked me what I do? I replied: "I am a writer."

“Oh”, they responded with surprise. Then thought a bit and followed up their first question with a curious reasoning:

“If I would write about them, then they could become famous especially if part of the story that becomes known or vice versa it can also be the case that I would get famous and at least they would have met me once."

Their reasoning showed things can work just as well the other way around!

So look at their faces! They are travellers in their own world, open minded at that, and when you speak with them, you feel that they understand intuitively what you are trying to say to them.

Trust is uttermost importance

More than the traffic lights outside

Or what else would regulate air traffic

With security measures piling up

To test everyone in the crowd

As if the danger is to be singled out

When a President has spoken those words

during his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize

That in the world there exists ‘evil’

as if this was former President Bush talking and not Obama himself,

But in this world we need friendly words

of good fellow travellers who hold out an olive branch

of utopia despite a peaceful life is not supposed to exist,

And therefore like a magic mountain out of reach

When it comes to appeal to common human sense.

So lets not forget being just friendly gets you still anywhere, anytime,

for sure, my fellow friends, and good luck wherever you might be right now!

Hatto Fischer 1.1.2010

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