As if a memory from my teens

I remember a day in my teens, walking on the streets of Tehran with a boy and a girl from my class. As the cliché goes, the other boy and I both liked the girl, or wanted to be the one who had her as the girlfriend, and we were not particularly happy about this so-called love triangle. But, for some reasons that I don’t remember anymore, on that day we were more or less happy about whatever we were doing together – not a full-fledged positive vibe, but for once we were not preoccupied with our own agendas! Then, in a very banal moment of crossing a street, I just saw it in the eyes of the girl how happy she was to have us both as her friends. Of course, being in my teens, I did not have a clue about relationships, romantic or platonic, and our beloved crush may have had any reason for keeping us both around herself. But, at the time, I was quite certain about what I saw in her eyes and thought this was a profound finding! Be that as it may, how much I acted on this in my teenage years is a different story, and that is for another time!

PS: It goes without saying that this photo just reminded me of all this, and the captured moment above has most likely nothing to do with what I have written here.