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CASSIOPEIA #9

Have you ever felt that you were not really you, but actually you were the truer version of yourself without intending to?

That's how I felt being around Jason when I stayed with him at his place. It seemed to me that it was letting go of everything I had ever tried to be or others had expected me to be that made all the difference.

And although I didn't really do or say anything special, people reacted very differently to me. For instance, when Jason and I were walking through his hometown, we met this elderly lady who seemed a bit lost.

I approached her to ask her if I could be of help and she just smiled when she saw me and then she said: "Oh dear, you have been such a big help indeed. I don't know what I would do without you."

At first it occurred to me that she was a bit confused, but then she continued, "Albert, my late husband, had told me how wonderful you have been to him and that you reminded him of me. He said he would ask you to come to me to give me a hug, once you would be back. And here you are my dear."

Having said that, she opened her arms and I hugged her. The moment our bodies embraced each other, I remembered everything about Albert, how we had met when I was on the other side and that we had talked for ages. I even recalled how he had asked me to hug his beloved wife.

So I whispered in her ear, "It is a pleasure for me, Bertha. Albert is a wonderful being. But that is something I need not tell you."

She conspiratorially winked at me and then she walked on, gleaming like the sun itself.

Jason had watched everything. He laughed and asked, "What was that?"

"Just an old friend of mine", was my answer. Then we both chuckled and started to run like the two children we felt at that very moment. Chasing the happiness of the moment.