Potential investors and peppermint tea, days to remember

Running a company is such a rollercoaster. No day, no moment is the same. From potential investors with 8 million to invest sitting in front of you, to psychology questionnaires and free peppermint tea in coffee shops, with a stranger leaning over to try and steal answers, the noticing of a foreign accent creating easy conversation. Met a lovely man who commented on my teeth - apparently my mother was a very healthy woman when she had me.

But getting back to the investment opportunity - you never know who you are talking to in this world. People are full of surprises, some moderately good, sometime nasty, and sometimes, very rarely, they are eye opening, sparkling juicy ones that pull you tightly to your seat, pour adrenaline through your veins and retain the moment firmly in the present, forcing you to contain dreams for the future and blessings of the past in suspension... which is good... great actually, that life can be so bursting with energy in the present, that you can forget to worry or plan, or even attempt to construct an idea of the future that tomorrow will bring, because each encounter you have now, means that you idea of tomorrow will never come to pass.

The reality we construct, if only it could be as wondrous, always, as these unexpected meetings and chance encounters.

It's all about being remarkable, asking for what's not apparently on offer and taking the next step, a step that can sometimes seem so easy, too easy, so that no one takes it, or seems so difficult that no one dares. But by daring to step, by daring to be different, or by daring to just be yourself and open to the possibilities that the random nature of life brings, your life can be so full of "life".

I go back to my original notion - that its human, face-to face encounters that capture the essence of life, the interactions on a real level with people in your environment, the random nature of people who float in their own unique bubbles of meaning structure, bumping off of each other, opening up to exchange a little of the air pressure inside. We all benefit and change by the encounters, and exchanges, and without them, we are alone, isolated, unchanged, unaltered, not necessarily unhappy, but not enthused with the different ways of seeing the world that others perspectives bring. Some cause change in tiny amounts, some in huge life altering exchanges, but all of them worth it.