Have you ever met someone from Gaia offline?

It's a conspiracy!!!!

Holy yikes!   I still feel so damn ‘new'...and the most awful part is I still act like the new kid on the block...

Now, quick, let's get back to the question before another year disappears....

Yes, I have actually met with three lovely Gaians and I am still reeling that it actually happened to me...you see nothing this daring ever happens to me...

Why? 

Huh!  As if you didn't know.

I love living la Vida loca under my snug rock.  I swear if I never get to go travel anywhere for the rest of my life, I would still be the happiest person ever...

Yikes.  There.  I have gone and revealed a major short-coming about myself...

However, sigh...I forgot to tell you that I am more curious than Pandora ever was...and this is the thing that motivates me to move my er feet...

Actually, my curious nature and my endless list of relatives are what keep me moving... I swear.   When God was giving out freebies, I must have swiped up all the relatives....lol... because how else would one explain that I seem to have enough to fill a small country???

Lol.

However, just so you know...I love all my relatives, each and every wacky one of them...they are inspiring and amusing and ... but...I already know their minds, I know why they breathe, I know why they think vegetables, why they dream in more colors than the rainbow...and Psst...I also know why God loves them more than he will ever love me.  Sob. 

Quick.   Back to the question before a decade flies away....

Oh yes.... the incredible thing is that I met three lovely Zaadsters...er...Gaians and in the same week...

Chris and Liza on a Sunday and Nicole on a Friday. (will link their names to their profiles later...)

Why did I bothered to meet up with them???

Curiosity.  I needed to find out whether people are any different from their virtual selves....

Oh well...that and the need to explore 'real-time' minds from other worlds...why?   Duh.... how else am I going to acquire a universal mind?        I know. I know, I could read other people minds through their books, the Internet but come on, how many people blog and how many books could I really read?  Plus...with blogs...really, how many people put their whole minds in there?  Lol...

Okay...back to the meet-up...it's not as if I haven't done this sorta thing before...why I've met up with company's clients over the years but in the business world, there is nothing thrilling about that...'cept for some clammy palms and butterflies having a field day in my stomach...Psst...that's a secret....

With the Gaia meet up, it wasn't heart-pounding excitement either but it was more like meeting up with school chums...

Liza...and she's lovely and charming and very easy to get along with...in fact, she reminds me of my girlfriends from back in the school day....is the first I met of the three....and wow...I just realized something....of all the 200,000.00 Gaians, Liza is the first person I have met in person, probably because she's the closest to me in distance.....

Liza drove over to my house, abandoned her car at my home, jumped into my car and we drove off all the way to Richmond Hill, Ontario to meet Amma.

This was the reason why we were meeting up...because Pandora loves to open up boxes; any box...just gave her a damn box....

Trust me...this was more exciting than that first box...

We were going to meet a universal goddess, see for myself if she was indeed er huggable...and forever seat all the questions hovering inside my head...

Hmm...well...it turns out she is an extraordinary human being but I knew that already but you know the mind, it has to see for itself... dumbo mind...

Anyway, what impressed me about Amma was the fact that she kept hugging people without taking a break.... and the hug she gave me and Liza made us feel like new born babies, safe and snug and warm and breathless.... yes.... she held us tight against her heart...her lovely, sweet heart...filled with incredible love for people from all walks of life, didn't care whether they were stinky or sweetly fragrant as me... ha ha...

It was going to be a long day...there were so many people there....

Oh yes...I forgot to mention Chris.  After Liza and I arrived, we ditched our shoes and took a tour of the ballroom, got our tokens, retrieved our shoes and went off to Starbucks to chat while we waited on our ‘hugging' turn. 

After we got stuffed with coffee and snaks, we waited with a circle of people for Amma's entrance.  Within minutes, she was there, dressed in a white sari...waving and smiling sweetly.... and then I remembered...

Omg!  Chris!   We totally forgot about him.

So we followed Amma into the ballroom...squeezed in was more like it.... found seats on the floor...and Psst...we were supposed to take off our shoes...but yikes...we both forgot.... so I slipped off mine and hid them under a chair...whew.... no one was any the wiser...thank Goddess.... and sat down to listen to chanting of ‘aums'.

And then I remembered!  Omg! Chris!   I looked up and there he was, talking to someone...so I walked over to him...beckoning for Liza to follow me but she was in a comfy position and I bet she didn't want to lose her seat....(psst...either that or she didn't want to bring attention to her shoes which she was still wearing...lol....)

"Umm.... are you..." I clear my throat.  "Chris." I say.

He looks at me.  "Amy!" He says.

He's a lovely soul and warm and friendly...

How did we recognize each other?   Well...he was wearing a straw hat on his backpack...and me...even though I neglected to let him know what we were wearing...etc...etc...I mean...come on...how many brown girls walk up to a man wearing a hat and say, "Hi, Chris!" ?

We chatted with Chris for a few seconds and then Liza and I left to snap photographs of ourselves all over Sheridan...and by the time we made it back into the ballroom, it was time for our divine hugging from Amma... we bade Chris goodbye and made our way home...

Oh wait...don't go yet...I have to tell you about meeting up with Nicole....

She's a wonderful soul and it turns out she's even more beautiful than her photograph with a lovely personality.   We met up at a fabulous restaurant on King Street in Toronto...and our conversation kept on flowing smoothly until it was time to leave.