Magic is everywhere! Even there where you do not expect it!

Today, I had the honour of meeting my friend Peter in Cyres Café. Peter is a CEO and owner of a medium sized company. We met to discuss future projects that he wants me to do for his company.

As we are discussing the upcoming projects, Peter suddenly tells me ‘I have not come alone today!’.
A bit surprised I ask him ‘Did you bring a friend?’. Peter starts smiling.
‘Why did you leave your friend outside?’, I ask Peter.
‘I am not sure you would appreciate’, is Peters response.

‘What do you mean?’
‘Your friends, are my friends, don’t leave them out in the car!’
Peter smiles for the second time making me even more curious.

‘Would you appreciate if my friend is a magpie?’
‘What do you mean a magpie?’

‘You mean symbolically speaking? It is a trait of his caracter?’

‘No’, Peter, smiling at me, ‘I am not talking about symbolically speaking, I am talking about a real magpie that is my friend’.
‘I never heard of this!’ And I push Peter to tell me more about it.

And Peter starts telling his story:

‘A few months back, as I was driving home from work, I noticed in the middle of the street a very small bird, seemingly fallen out of a nest of a tree nearby. The young bird must have been, not older than a few days, so fragile it was. I got out of the car to pick it up and rescue it out of the dangerous place it found itself on’

‘I decided on feeding it and trying to make sure it survived, being fragile and all.’

‘Since then, I have taken it with me to my office, have it in my car, we go biking together and walk in the woods together’.

‘The bird and I seem to have developed such a bound that in all its freedom it prefers to stay with me. Whenever we go biking, it sits on my bike. Now and then it flies off into the trees, but never leaving me for more than a few hundred meters alone. The bird always joins me out of free will and whenever I call it, it comes just flying onto my shoulders.’

‘It gives me great joy, Cris!’.

I smile.

Peter tells me that wherever he goes with the car, to a meeting, an appointment, the bird always travels with him, sitting on the seat next to him, enjoying the ride together with his friend.

It has made such a beautiful impact on his life that Peter now takes his bird with him to the office, where it is free to fly in or out.
He has even changed part of his furniture so that everything always looks clean in his office, all to accomodate his friend.

Today , his bird just interupted one of his meetings because one of the participants was playing with a shining ball pen, and you know how magpies are in love with all that sparkles. So the bird just came flying in and picked up the pen and took it elsewhere, to the surprise of all the participants of the meeting.

Imagine working in a company where this were part of your daily meetings at work, my god would I love to work in such a company!

It made me smile big time…dreaming of that soulbird that always flies next to me!

Thank you Peter, for proving to me that even in corporate world, magic can happen to you. You showed me magic today :)!
Thank you , my friend, for making me smile deeply.

Fly close to me, my soulbird, I long for your presence!

Cris

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