There are very few people in my life who I label as "interesting", my boyfriend for one - though I have known for years I still find him as mysterious as ever, and then there is a thirty three year old man I met at the court house yesterday.

He was appointed to keep me company whilst I sat for hours in the witness room. He brought me tea and biscuits and he chatted non-stop about so many interesting things (mainly T'ai Chi and Reiki).

In the time I spent with him I pretty much found out his whole life story: he left school and studied engineering but hated it so he quit, he then studied sports therapy and because a football coach but that wasn't challenging enough for him so he decided to teach sports therapy to college students, during this time he decided to learn T'ai Chi and joined a class only the teacher was a bully and beat him up every lesson but he finally found a different teacher and now he's blossomed into a lovely teacher of it as well as teaching a bit of Reiki. He's a lovely and friendly man, very open and not very confident and he always put himself down.

He told me that he hated going out of his comfort zone but that he was required to go to Malaysia to train with his Zen Master and he's terrified: terrified of flying, terrified of being on his own, terrified of training outside in the heat for five hours straight... I tried to comfort him but i'm rubbish at doing that kind of stuff. I just wanted to hug him.

Guess i'm writing this down because I want to remember him and all the advice he's given me...