She made me smile as she past in front of me, her hair dancing in the wind, her arms outstretched pushing her skateboard along with one foot, without any hesitation nor care of her surrounding, oblivious to me at the stop sign. She was in the blissful zone of youth, eyes semi closed, enjoying the sun’s embrace on her face, a free spirited soul in flight, gliding along as she crossed in front of my car.

I felt her youth and re-called mine, that feeling of freedom, being in the moment without any knowledge of the heaped on responsibilities that come with adulthood, the worries of tomorrow while wrestling the realities of today. I watched her happiness that everything youth offers that is good, and sat there basking in the aura she left behind, a vortex that sucked my feelings in. For a brief moment, I was her age again.

She made me smile…It wasn’t her but but about her, that struck me, like the spark of a match , while not a fire, ignites one. It was brief and then she disappeared and I continued to smile………all the way……….. to the supermarket.