Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Jean-Baptiste


Jean-Baptiste and I went to college together and I can say that he is probably the person with whom I feel the strongest intellectual connection in the world. Jean-Baptiste is a brilliant guy, a free thinker, a scholar. A person who has gone deeply in the knowledge of himself and a true believer, a Zarathoustra of the modern age. Life took us on different path after graduation and we ended up on different continents. Jean-Baptiste in Central America and me in Eastern Europe. One thing we once shared in college was this belief in a greater mission. We had this strength in us, one of unspoken words and somehow our paths needed to cross again.

...It was a cold and snowy day in Michigan, I was attending a meeting of the French-American Chamber of Commerce. And I heard this voice behind me...5 years had gone by but I immediately recognized the voice...I turned my head and there was Jean-Baptiste, standing in front of me. That was so great to see him again. Strangly enough we met had a time where we both needed to change things in our lives and we really helped each other a lot in that respect.

Alors merci Jean-Baptiste d'être l'ami que tu es, le frère qui occupera toujours une place unique est irremplaçable dans mon existence.

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