how many licks does it take? question two. "(before sunrise) ended with a bittersweet parting and a promise of a reunion in vienna in six months. no letters, no phone calls, no contact, just an impulsive romantic vow and a charmingly naive faith in happy endings." jesse and celine want to see each other again but trust that they will meet on the exact same train platform in six months. it's romantic and hopeful and totally impossible. have you ever had the urge to not lose someone you just connected with? romantically or non-romantically? of course. you don't let that person out of your sight without some way of contacting them.



how many of us have had the discipline to let it all go, and leave fate to the winds? not many of us. only in the movies do schemes like "i'll write my phone number on five dollar bill and give it to a hot dog vender. you write your name and phone number in book and sell it to a used book store. if we find either one, then it's fate and we're meant to be together" work out. we know this, that's why we exchange contact information. heck, half the time in life you're trying to dump contact information you never wanted in the first place. getting contact information shouldn't be the hard part, getting rid of it is.



so, faced with a train schedule and the chance of never meeting again, would you let the fates decide? i know i wouldn't. i want to hear from somebody who would. anyone?



now there are times when you would like to speak to someone further but you don't push for the contact information. usually it's because you know that you could reach them if you really wanted to. friends of friends, the web of life, friendster, whatever. times like these don't count. it has to be someone you meet whom you have almost no chance of finding again unless you ask for contact information.



also, as a top ranked amateur internet sleuth, i believe that jesse could HAVE found celine. assuming google was around in those days. he knew her name, he knew where she went to school. presumably they talked about what she studied. with a little bit of internet research (name plus major plus school) and a phone call or two, i bet jesse could HAVE found celine. but that's just me talking. not everyone is a savvy internet stalker. i mean, sleuth.