6 weeks in a balloon part 3

6 weeks in a balloon-part 3

fiction
edward w pritchard

see parts one and 2

Jersey spent six weeks peacefully floating along in her hot air balloon observing humanity as it went about it's daily rituals and routines. It was comfortable and safe in the basket and once Jersey acclimated herself to the minor inconveniences she began to enjoy watching the people below as they went about the scurrying of their lives.

Part 3

Drifting over the man on the bench below obviously deep in reflection, Jersey thought to yell, get out of your own head, still the mind, do something, take a small step. However, the wind blew the balloon she was traveling in out over the Lake, away from the bench the man was sitting on, and since she didn't have time to tell him about the DSM-iv-, or the enneagrams, or even how to still the mind in a Buddhist sense; Jersey threw the man a hat sitting in the bottom of the balloon she was traveling in. The man didn't see the balloon above but was pleasantly surprised by the hat which seemed to float to him from the heavens above.

Although jersey didn't see the man again, her action of throwing the overly reflective man a hat had changed his life. For now he began the quest for personal growth and completeness and he did it while wearing an attractive new chapeau indeed.
end part 3