Momentos – Feb 2013

These are my Momentos, short personal diary entries I write daily – since 2013 – and publish monthly. Some links are affiliate links.

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She still couldn’t believe it, even after seeing me walk away. I read her bewildered text as I rode home on the skytrain and replied, “I’m sorry. I told you before. I don’t want sex with woman who has boyfriend or husband anymore. We can be friends, that’s all.” As I walked the final stretch back to the condo, I put Jango in my ears and smiled a self-respecting smile as Ms. Simone sang me a song about a sinner man.

28

It was only later that I’d realized what I’d done. He’d told me something deeply personal, deeply vulnerable. And I, at least on the surface, reacted like it was no big deal. Pretty much shrugged it off, when I suspect he really needed someone to talk to. Not the first time I’d done such a thing, either. I was ashamed of myself.