“How’s it going?” a bright face looked up at me.
I had a busy day yesterday…
Up early for a meeting to help mediate a problem between two parties that I know well that were about to go through a silly court process, gave a social media course to a group of business owners, drove to Dublin for a big pitch to a potential prospect – I feel it went well, fingers crossed!
We headed for an early bird to Chez Max on Baggot Street with our crew and were joined after by friends for a few drinks and some fun.
We ended up in 37, Dawson Street for more fun and then Burger king of course.
There was a beautiful full moon hanging over Dublin on this gorgeous night as we strolled back to our hotel. Our usual haunt was booked out so we ended up trading up to the very fancy, Merrion Hotel. Hotels in Dublin are clearly getting busier, which is a great sign for our economy.
As we made our way back to the hotel I noticed the bodies nestled in their sleeping bags alongside doorways just off Stephen’s Green. At least tonight it was dry and not too cold, which is a small blessing for those unfortunate enough not to have a roof over their heads for the night.
I glanced into one doorway where i noticed there were two people sleeping alongside each other.
To my surprise a bright face was staring up at me. For a brief moment we connected “How’s it going?” he said in a soft friendly voice. “Not bad at all, thanks”
We made our way back to our hotel and put our heads down for the night.
Today it’s off to Dublin Airport as we are taking a flight to Sicily for a well earned rest and some sunshine – it should be great, we’ve never been.
I wonder what my bright faced friend is doing today.
Greg Canty
Greg Canty is a partner of Fuzion, Marketing & PR with offices in Cork and Dublin
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May 15, 2014 at 2:28 pm |
Well Greg, I hope you have a lovely ‘well earned break’. Now I’m going to take you to task (and probably 99% of us) you wonder how ‘your friend’ is doing today. Perhaps if you wanted to call him your friend you should have spent a little time getting to know him. We all pass these comments and really do we stop to think. I’m glad he made an impression on you pity you didn’t make one on him. I wonder if in a time past he would have been heading off on a ‘well earned break’ until misfortune visited him or did he ever have the chance to need a ‘well earned break’.
May 27, 2014 at 4:47 pm |
Well said Trish …he did make an impression on me.