Seventh Sense

Continuing with the statement, Love at first meeting”. We have a seventh sense if we choose to be open to it. I used to raise German Sheppard’s. They were for the most part friendly to people I invited into my home. However on a occasions they would not stop growling at certain people who came to my home. I paid attention to this and would discover these people were not people I wanted in my home. Yes-we too have senses like mans best friend. I am not saying we are dogs. But that wouldn’t be too bad with a doting owner. To go on…several years ago I was meeting some friends for an evening of dancing.
I walked into the lounge to see my friends sitting at a table. They had arrived early and were the only people in the room at the time. As I took off my coat preparing to join them, I was stopped by the sense of someone else’s presence near. I couldn’t sit down. I had to know who this invisible person I felt was. I started towards the room divider. I knew someone was behind it. Suddenly a face appeared looking around the divider straight into my eyes. A voice came from the face, “You looking at me?” He felt my presence too. I still have to laugh at the craziness of it. It was not love at first sight. I have to call it, “love at first sense”. Or seventh sense. Some would call it pheromones. Wikipedia has an excellent article about pheromones which refers to humans and animals. (Back to being animals.) Despite feeling a deep and binding love for this person we are not lovers. We have remained friends of the heart for many years. We have explored this phenomenon that brought us to be friends. It is not sexual. We live very different lives, in different cities. We very seldom have the opportunity to talk face to face. But not a week goes by that we don’t have a conversation by phone. We cannot imagine not being friends. In the beginning we did think the feeling was about being lovers-in love. We took our time discovering what the overwhelming feeling was all about. As special as it is, it isn’t about being together. There are many levels to love. I am thankful we did not rush into something that may have ruined our continuing friendship. I have grown emotionally from discovering this level of love and friendship.