THE LOOKALIKE part 2
Not seeing Eve for quite some time is beginning to have effect on me, especially I recently met her look-alike nearly every day. Not seeing and meeting Eve means also a decline of my condition because the contact with her gave incredible stimuli for me. Since that contact is gone for at least two years I am beginning to feel it. But as I said, the past weeks I met her look-alike on a daily basis and I must admit the decline has stopped. I don’t have large contacts with the look-alike: greetings with additional dialogue like ‘how do you feel with your new job’ or ‘is everything OK with the colleague’s you have’ or ‘if you have any trouble with something you can always call on me’ and that sort of thing. I can’t have a longer conversation because she is very reluctant. Perhaps it has in the first place to do with her home environment. She is quite younger and therefore the world she lives in is very different of mine. What that world is I haven’t found out, she won’t speak about it. She tries to be pleasant and smiles a lot and tries to make fun and laugh about all sort of things that happens on the job, but I have a feeling that she isn’t spontaneous about it; that she is only smiling because she has to. I don’t want to hear her out. I only give a hint and if she wants to tell, she can pick up on one of the questions I asked above and go further, but she doesn’t. I have a reputation of being a funny, witty guy on the job and if she should have asked colleague’s about me, they surely would told her about my character. Perhaps that’s in the first place way she immediately begins to smile at me when I greet her in the morning. She heard me make jokes or funny remarks on job meetings and she laughed like everyone else with the cracks, although I sometimes doubt if she understood the point I was making. In the beginning I heard she has a relationship with a guy, I respect that of course, though you know the saying ‘all is fair in love and war’, but that is not for me. In that aspect I always have the fairest fair play and respect every relationship. The love affairs I have had are always with someone who is or was completely free, as far as I know, because when I found out that the person had a steady relationship I broke it immediately off. So with the look-alike I only want to get to know her, since it’s also stimulating to work together on a positive and pleasant way. You don’t have to have a love affair to be with another, although I admit it can make people jealous when they see that you get along quite well with someone. I remember such situations when Eve was still on the job and some colleague’s saw how well we got along and felt quite jealous, specially other, indeed somewhat older women-colleague’s. On the other hand it’s also a stimulating thing when the look-alike keeps everything on a vague basis. I am not forcing anything, we talk colleague-talk, general greetings and small talks, if she wants to go further and perhaps in time she will, time is on my side, I can get to know her, though it would be a greater surprise to me if she would have the same interests and idea’s like Eve. In any case the adventure goes on and what would be better appropriate than the song of that by Stone & Charden from the seventies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et1hWRxz0gw
and what could be nicer to see and to hear than Gene Tierney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_0tcQrHAZw&feature=related