THE SHADOW GIFFERS

Have you ever had one of those moments when you see something so strange it makes you blink, shake your head and strain your neck to try and catch another glimpse.

It all happens so quickly, just a flicker of an instant, but it's burnt into your memory like a camera snapping a photograph. You play it over and over in your head as if you were watching an old movie, ruminating within your own thoughts. You wonder if your eyes are playing tricks on you, you must've imagined it. You eventually try to dismiss your thoughts, pull your face into a half smirk and get on with your day.

But it's there.... in the back of your mind, you can't fully let it go. It comes back like a bad curry on takeaway night. You debate it logically as it rolls through your head. Eventually, the 'normal' people WILL move on, store the memory somewhere in the back of their mind and forget it ever happened.

Unfortunately, as it turns out, I'm not what you call 'a normal person', although I didn't know it at the time. This exact kind of weird moment happened to me and turned out to be the beginning... and the end, all at the same time.

I know it sounds strange, but it was the evolution into a new life and the end of everything comfortable and familiar. We all fool ourselves into thinking we know who we are, and where we come from, but what if it all turns out to be a lie, and the truth once we know it, will change us forever.