The Look

 

Have you noticed; that ‘special look’ between two people?

It doesn’t happen all the time, but you know it when you see it.

Before you get a conversation or an introduction, the appearance is your first evaluation to the other person. It might be a polite smile that is going through the motions or the awkward my mind and focus is somewhere else.

Then there is that magic moment when you walk into a room full of people and across the room your eyes connect with another. It doesn’t have to be love at first sight, but immediately there is a connection.

The look may not appear except in intimate moments. Sometimes you don’t even realize it is there.

The other day checking out at the scanning machine with a crowd of frantic shoppers I was waiting for the blue apron with the magic card to come by and verify I was old enough to drink 3.2 beer, I saw ‘the look’. Through all the chaos a woman on the other side of the crowd looked at me. We stood there for a minute or two staring at each other. No words were spoken, but it was ‘the look’.

The ‘look’ that offered possibilities. The ‘look’ of unique interest. The ‘look’ of a mysterious connection.

She packed up her bags and moved on. I got my ID approved and headed in another direction.

At another place, at another time ‘the look’ could have, but it wasn’t that time or place.

Mysterious lady from the super market, this old man says, “Thank you for ‘the look’. It was good while it lasted.”