I take a picture of you to remember how good you looked...

Henri Cartier-Bresson says that to capture the real self of things and people on a photograph, one should sit next to them for hours, become part of the surroundings and only then shoot pictures.

Well, I did so, too.

Not with a camera, though, just with my mind. I sat there for hours, a couple of weeks ago or so, and became part of the surroundings et al while quietly observing him live his own day. I didn't interfere, all I eventually shared with him (words, mainly, and glances and smiles) came directly from him. I captured everything and everything is now stored in my mind, not in the back of it, it's everywhere. I can't see a thing around me, I can't do a thing that won't remind me of him all the time. And I like this floaty state of mind a lot.

Maybe he was taking mind pictures as well.