Places and Men

In a way, places just as men (and women) could equally be concerned. The first likewise the second ones print their personality in you more or less. Choice for each of us to accept or not that influence. They forever leave a souvenir of their passage through your life. Positively or negatively, and this independently of the duration of their attendance.
Positively : it is the smile of an unknown woman met in the street whom you will never see again, it is wisdom emerging from a confidential conversation, it is peace inspired by harmony of a landscape...
Negatively : it is the truly wicked speech shot by a person whose consequent hurt forever remains in you, it is resentment following a fight, it is the refusal of a dis-pleasant or hostile sight... There also are places and human beings that don't impress you because of their insipidity.
There may be reciprocity : each of us may leave an influence on others. As to the places, we project on them emotions or sensations coming from their vision. Thus there is an exchange, as much with human beings as physical places or material things. So much so that somebody (Alphonse de Lamartine) one day laid the question "Inanimate objects, haven't you a spirit in fact?"
(Copyright Jean-Michel Cagnon)