Last time (in part 1) I told you that sometimes – in a weird way – it looks like we (the HSP’s) can be ‘other people’s ears and eyes’ in real life. So that we could tell them something they might wanna know, but they actually can’t see yet; or wouldn’t be possible to do so. Well, the following story is connected to that one. In fact, this one made me think more about these dynamics, because of the resemblance.

FB-Friends

She was Dutch as well, and I met her through a mutual friend in Madrid. She had a Spanish boyfriend, who was willing to move to The Netherlands together with her. So a few months after our encounter they actually moved to my home country. She loved Spain, but career- and money-wise she thought it would be beter to go back. Since I was still living in Madrid, we didn’t have much contact, but we had become FB-friends.

Missing Living Abroad

Some years later I moved back to The Netherlands, and she got wind of it. So she contacted me, as a friend. We went out, had lunch, and just hung out – not frequently, but at least a couple of times during a period of time. She told me about her life in our home country, and the fact that she was kinda missing living abroad. Oh, and not much of less importance: she and her boyfriend had broken up. So she had to get some things off her chest as well.

Not Happy

For some reason he didn’t seem happy in The Netherlands, her former boyfriend. But it was hard to tell for her, whether he would be happier in Spain – his home country – or that some hidden reason made him a bit sad over here. She tried to cheer him up, to make him feel better in his new country, but apparently it didn’t work out. And they broke up. She also told me that she knew that he was still living in The Netherlands. A bit of a surprise, since living in The Netherlands could have been one of the reasons why he wasn’t happy. Anyway, she was just hoping that he would be happy, no matter what. And in the meantime, she had met someone else, so nothing to complain about that.

Exciting Time

Flash forward – more than a year later. I was still teaching, and I got asked to cover a company class. The people were great, and my contact person was really friendly. We had several packages of classes covered, so I gotta know the people a little bit better. Especially my contact person, who had quite some changes in his life: having a child, together with his girlfriend, with whom he hadn’t been super long in a relationship. It was becoming a challenging but exciting time for him, for sure. And he seemed happy.

Connection

So why mentioning him? My contact person. Well, for a start, he was Spanish. And secondly, it took me almost four months to realize that his name – shortened – was the same as my friend’s ex-boyfriend; the way she would address him. But still… Who would have made that connection? Okay, I did. After so many classes. Guess it was time for some revealing – but for whom? I went to her FB-page and clicked on some of the pictures I actually had seen before. To my own surprise it was him. My contact person with her, my FB-friend, who used to live in Madrid as well. In her pictures; where they were on holidays, in the park, in love. And I had no clue. In my defence, I had never seen her ex-boyfriend before, in person. I only knew him from her stories. And when I saw her pictures on FB (back then), I was hardly in contact with her; I was living in Spain. But it didn’t make the surprise less – and that’s an understatement.

Blissful Life

I guess they are both happy now with their own, separate lives. But you can imagine how weird it was to discover these things. And why? Was it because she was curious about his new life, and I picked up – energetically – her wish? Or did I tune in too much, when she was telling about her ex-boyfriend, and I just connected with him somehow? So that I would actually meet him? No idea to be honest – you may be the judge of that.

Anyways, when I experience things like this, I sometimes wonder: if I can be ‘the eyes and ears’ of someone else in real life, well, let me make sure I meet people who have strong desires of having a great house on a beautiful, warm island, getting to know Angelina Jolie & George Clooney well for creative projects, and living a blissful life with their love. You know where I will end up any time soon then, right?