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So it was when I spotted this guy that I realised it. Well actually, it was when I not only spotted him and found myself captivated by his incredible face that I REALLY realised it.

Anyway the fact he was wearing a hood drew me to the intensity in his gaze. His face perfectly framed, exhibited eyes… oh the eyes…they were special. Some would say hazel, although to call them that seems a grave injustice, since these eyes shared more than hazel tones, they were blue, green and hazel combined, and I found myself looking into them. So different.

I caught myself, it must have been several seconds later at most, since I had no intention of drawing attention to myself through staring, and it was then that I had the realisation. You forgot about that didn’t you, the realisation? Well for those of you who were paying attention, here it is, basically I have an attraction to difference. It can be almost anything and in this situation it just so happened to be this guy’s eyes.

Its the attractive difference, you know, that thing that renders the unusual beautiful because of its unique ability to be just that- unusual. How else can we explain people who manage to cover themselves entirely with tatoos to the extent they have no definable or recognizable features, and still manage to find love?

People like difference. If you ask most people about someone they may have been attracted to or had a crush on, or been involved with, and you question what they were attracted to, at least half of the people questioned, if not more, would say “there was just something a bit different about him/her”.

Being attracted to difference is harmless enough. Harmless enough, that is, until it becomes all you look for and accept. I have an acquaintance who will not date “normal” guys. She claims, she looks for guys who are different, or are at least vastly different to her, that is what she finds attractive. So that includes the West Indian buddhist, the Indie-rock  Indian, and then there was the heavily pierced and tattooed irish guy.  Funnily enough none of these relationships lasted too long since it appears when a relationship is based solely on difference, it soon disintegrates when the difference becomes familiar.

Onyx Knight