Friday, July 2, 2010

Idle chit chat

I seem to run into two kinds of people in Melbourne: former students and B-grade celebrities. Today, at Windsor station, it was the former.

It took me a while to register who it was because the student had undergone a makeover of sorts and was sporting a funky haircut and wearing very stylish clothes.

The train soon arrives and we both get on and start to chat. The student is now doing graduate medicine. He was going to the city to meet a friend for lunch. He seems genuinely happy.

A couple of years ago, I had bumped into the same student (also on public transport). I was with Nathan. The next day, I got an email from the student telling me that he had recently come out as a bisexual man. Several years later, as we stood in the train carriage discussing trivial things, I am thinking about the other journey he had been taking. I did not feel it was appropriate of me to ask about his coming out but I did tell him how nice it was to see him again and how glad I was that things were going well for him.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I should be more understanding, but really, coming out as a bisexual male. The world is mad or I am.

Adaptive Radiation said...

Bisexuality might be a stepping stone in this case.

The Mutant said...

I look back at the bisexual step these days and laugh at how silly it sounds - but realise that I had to do the same thing myself once. Consider it a toe in the water exercise to test people's reactions.

Alternatively I know a few blokes who actually ARE bisexual. They're equally comfortable with/in love with/can fuck the guts out of both men and women. In some ways I think that is perhaps the way sexuality should be. None of this orientation elitism that seems to occur.

Adaptive Radiation said...

Testing the water? Probably. The wole email was rather awkward as he was asking me which gay clubs I would recommend on commercial road.

Jayne said...

Yes, a stepping stone from my observation of several friends coming out over the years :)