Homeless

Aberdeen is full of surprising people and places. Seaton Park is located just in between the Students Village and the Aberdeen University. It is bounded by a high stone wall on one side and by the river Don on the other. There are a few steep hills, but not too many, so I enjoy running there.

Last week, I was just running up one of those hills when I met a man. I looked at him and kept in running. He might have been in his fifties, he had dreads, his skin was black, and he was wearing old muddy clothes. In one hand he was holding a bag and in the second a violin case. That seemed quite weird to me. Why should a homeless have a violin case, it even cannot be very practical?! He looked at me with one eye - which means, that he was very apathetic, because I do wear so many reflective bands and bright colourful sport clothes while running, that everyone has to look at me at least twice as I look like three rainbows in one. So we disappeared to each other quickly.

I ran around the whole park, the weather was nice and the wind very mild, and soon I arrived to Don, near the place where I met that man. And he was there again. He was sitting on a bench, looking at Don, the dreads were floating in the air…and he was sitting. And playing. Playing the violin! He was playing a very nice melody. That amazed me. I stopped and I was watching him from behind, him, my homeless man, who has a case and violin in it, and goes to play to Don for pleasure. Not for money, not for people, for himself. I stood there. And, suddenly he somehow realized, people sometimes have that kind of special sense. He looked back at me, winked and quite contemptuously and dismissively, but also with understanding, said: ’’What do you want?’’

I would like to do what I enjoy doing and what I want to do. Every evening I would like to have a feeling that I have again walked a small part of my way from the morning, and that I do not regret anything. I would like to be enjoying again and again those moments, when after time of failure, success comes back. I would like to keep trying to understand various great thoughts and ideas of human kind.  And I would like to be sad because of failures, unsolved math exercises, wrongly understood orders and misunderstanding with others. And then I would like to be even happier about new solutions, good and productive collaboration, about understanding and love. I would like to dance more and smile more. I would like to watch the stars, sunrises and sunsets more often. I would like to keep on solving math problems, playing the guitar and writing and do it more and more. I would like to be and to be more and more. I would like to and I want it! That is what I want!  I want it, because I can!  Because I have that great luck to do what I like, what makes me happy. Because my life is happy. Because others help me. Well, you also play the violin for Don only because you want. And from the same reason I am listening to you. I wanted to tell him that. I wanted to tell him that this way. However, when I came there the next day, he was gone. Probably he did not want to be there anymore.

 

Bezdomovec

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