After hearing my name, I turned around and said "Hey THERE! (As if I wasn't just disabled version running from him 5 seconds before) I need to talk to you about this security process. Glad you caught up with me!" I was indeed more annoyed than glad but took the moment to take care of business.
He walked with me to the coffee machine and we talked high level about the team's need. But couldn't go to far in detail because he had a meeting at 3.
"My meeting should end at 3:30, you want to meet then?"
"Yep, I don't have any more meetings today so it's all good."
We parted ways, or so we thought. Yep we were going back to our floor. Now why is this weird? Well typically finding a meeting room on our floor is like trying to turn water into wine by yourself. Typically teams have discussions in our baseme...I mean Concourse level. I thought he was staying there as I was making my way to my cube. Nope, we were both heading to the elevator. Oh hey Destiny...I see you are not playing with me today.
While taking the awkward walk, and equally awkward ride, we made small talk about non-work stuff. I don't know what was said, but it made him really want to meet with me later. Look I'm a conversationalist. Who knows what discussion I brought up. More than likely it was about music. so we parted at his meeting door and I kept walking to my desk...after grabbing some Advil for the increasing pain.
3:25 comes around and I wanted a chocolate chip cookie. Having that cookie was mission critical and my primary objective. Avoidance is one hell of a sweet talker. It will have you looking for a cookie on a full stomach. It will talk you into walking out in the cold because possible pain is worth not having to talk to someone. Avoidance can be your best friend when you need an excuse to skip out on a meeting. So she and I went downstairs to look for a 3 dollar chocolate chip cookie.
Destiny bought out all of the cookies except raisin, so I went back upstairs with angry tastebuds and 3 dollars in my pocket. Who was standing near my desk waiting? Solomon with a smile. Ugh why are you here?? Oh yeah we have a meeting.
"Do you want to get a meeting room or walk?" That question had my FitBit singing a new tune, so I responded with, "Let's walk." My response put an even bigger smile on his face, and so after dropping off his laptop at his cube, we began our Journey. Well first, I stopped by someone's desk and turned their globes so Africa could face me as I walked by. It's a thing I do. Don't judge. Seeing this, prompted a conversation from Solomon.
"If you could travel anywhere, where would it be?"
"Oh I have this planned out. I would go to Egypt for a week. Then on to Ghana, Cameroon and South Africa. Oh and in South Africa I would go to the Eastern Cape, Soweto and Cape Town. 3 weeks should be enough time for my trip."
Solomon gave the biggest smile I'd ever seen. It was the first of many that he's thrown my way. He explained that his family is from Egypt and his love of the country and the culture. We began talking about the ancient civilizations there, and that was the beginning of our non-process conversation.
"Up or down?"
I responded with up, but pressed the down button. He laughed as we got on the elevator but that was the only real pause in our conversation. We talked more about Egypt and why I was so enamored with ancient history. Then he asked about my journey in Islam. I mean it is interesting how a girl that grew up in the Southern Baptist religion, ended up with a new last name, and not from marriage. He was genuinely interested in the weaving of that spiritual path and how I came to my current understanding of live and our place in it.
Around the 2nd hour...yes we walked and talked that long, he asked about what business I would like to create. Just Tell him.
"I read tarot cards, so I'd like to do that as a side business."
October 2018
Dream 1:
I was walking down stairs in a wedding dress. At the bottom was my soon to be husband standing there smiling. We were so in love and he was overjoyed to see me coming towards him. We'd waited to move through the relationship, building on a friendship first then romance. This also meant there was no sex before marriage (uhmmmmm that's love for real).
Dream 2:
I was in the kitchen and my husband's mother was teaching me how to cook his favorite meals from their culture. All sorts of spices and such. But he was worth it and I loved to make him happy.
There was a third dream that week as well. The husband was white and someone I'm close to at work. This meant, whoever the future person is, was from a different culture than mine and a colleague. I'd gone through a list of people I knew at the job and none were a contender. Especially not Solomon.
He didn't flinch or have a misstep in his stride. From there his business brain kicked in and was throwing out ways to make money.
"Good thing you have all of these ideas, because you will be my manager. I'll just be the creative."
Solomon just looked at me and said, "I love to help people escape the matrix and create their own."
Destiny: That's him.
He walked with me to the coffee machine and we talked high level about the team's need. But couldn't go to far in detail because he had a meeting at 3.
"My meeting should end at 3:30, you want to meet then?"
"Yep, I don't have any more meetings today so it's all good."
We parted ways, or so we thought. Yep we were going back to our floor. Now why is this weird? Well typically finding a meeting room on our floor is like trying to turn water into wine by yourself. Typically teams have discussions in our baseme...I mean Concourse level. I thought he was staying there as I was making my way to my cube. Nope, we were both heading to the elevator. Oh hey Destiny...I see you are not playing with me today.
While taking the awkward walk, and equally awkward ride, we made small talk about non-work stuff. I don't know what was said, but it made him really want to meet with me later. Look I'm a conversationalist. Who knows what discussion I brought up. More than likely it was about music. so we parted at his meeting door and I kept walking to my desk...after grabbing some Advil for the increasing pain.
3:25 comes around and I wanted a chocolate chip cookie. Having that cookie was mission critical and my primary objective. Avoidance is one hell of a sweet talker. It will have you looking for a cookie on a full stomach. It will talk you into walking out in the cold because possible pain is worth not having to talk to someone. Avoidance can be your best friend when you need an excuse to skip out on a meeting. So she and I went downstairs to look for a 3 dollar chocolate chip cookie.
Destiny bought out all of the cookies except raisin, so I went back upstairs with angry tastebuds and 3 dollars in my pocket. Who was standing near my desk waiting? Solomon with a smile. Ugh why are you here?? Oh yeah we have a meeting.
"Do you want to get a meeting room or walk?" That question had my FitBit singing a new tune, so I responded with, "Let's walk." My response put an even bigger smile on his face, and so after dropping off his laptop at his cube, we began our Journey. Well first, I stopped by someone's desk and turned their globes so Africa could face me as I walked by. It's a thing I do. Don't judge. Seeing this, prompted a conversation from Solomon.
"If you could travel anywhere, where would it be?"
"Oh I have this planned out. I would go to Egypt for a week. Then on to Ghana, Cameroon and South Africa. Oh and in South Africa I would go to the Eastern Cape, Soweto and Cape Town. 3 weeks should be enough time for my trip."
Solomon gave the biggest smile I'd ever seen. It was the first of many that he's thrown my way. He explained that his family is from Egypt and his love of the country and the culture. We began talking about the ancient civilizations there, and that was the beginning of our non-process conversation.
"Up or down?"
I responded with up, but pressed the down button. He laughed as we got on the elevator but that was the only real pause in our conversation. We talked more about Egypt and why I was so enamored with ancient history. Then he asked about my journey in Islam. I mean it is interesting how a girl that grew up in the Southern Baptist religion, ended up with a new last name, and not from marriage. He was genuinely interested in the weaving of that spiritual path and how I came to my current understanding of live and our place in it.
Around the 2nd hour...yes we walked and talked that long, he asked about what business I would like to create. Just Tell him.
"I read tarot cards, so I'd like to do that as a side business."
October 2018
Dream 1:
I was walking down stairs in a wedding dress. At the bottom was my soon to be husband standing there smiling. We were so in love and he was overjoyed to see me coming towards him. We'd waited to move through the relationship, building on a friendship first then romance. This also meant there was no sex before marriage (uhmmmmm that's love for real).
Dream 2:
I was in the kitchen and my husband's mother was teaching me how to cook his favorite meals from their culture. All sorts of spices and such. But he was worth it and I loved to make him happy.
There was a third dream that week as well. The husband was white and someone I'm close to at work. This meant, whoever the future person is, was from a different culture than mine and a colleague. I'd gone through a list of people I knew at the job and none were a contender. Especially not Solomon.
He didn't flinch or have a misstep in his stride. From there his business brain kicked in and was throwing out ways to make money.
"Good thing you have all of these ideas, because you will be my manager. I'll just be the creative."
Solomon just looked at me and said, "I love to help people escape the matrix and create their own."
Destiny: That's him.
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