Everything was perfect, except for the timing

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I was at Union square in SF doing my daily routine of sitting down in the warm sunshine reading my book when to the right of me I spotted a cute girl who was looking at my direction. I glanced at her when she wasn't looking, and after trying to go over some words in my head about what I wanted to say with her, I decided that the best strategy would be to just come up and say 'hi!'

And 'hi!' I went to her, and it worked. We got to talking a bit. I found out she was from Germany, and she traveled to SF on vacation.. I was dismayed to hear that she was actually leaving for her flight back to Chicago on that very day! After 30 min of conversing or so, I asked her if she wanted to walk around the city a bit and go to pier 39. She said yes, and for the next 3 or so hours we toured down market street, looking at the war protests going on, and stopped by the docks at the pier. About 2/3 of the way to pier 39, it got late so we started heading back, but we grabbed some food at a really nice Japanese restaurant. After that, we headed back to the park and we both had to say our good-bye because I was already a little late for work, and she needed to go back to her hotel to pack up and leave for Chicago.

Metaphorically, I felt that I was holding a match between us, and while I got some sparks between us, the fire did not light. I tried tried to tell her how much I had liked her and the time we spent together, while I awkwardly brushed the side of her hands to let her know of my attraction towards her, but it seemed that all she did was smile and say good-bye. We traded emails and went our separate ways.

I doubt I will ever hear from this wonderful girl again. Email exchange through women seem to never work, and besides that it would be too long distance for us to keep a close relationship. I don't know exactly how she felt about me - it was clear that at least she liked me. Sometime I wonder what would have happened if she was staying a little longer, or if we had more time to spend together. It seemed that it all came down to timing, and it just wasn't in the cards for both of us.

/sigh....

you never know what the future brings... move in faith

I am thinking of writing an email to her. But I'm not sure if I should put in what I really felt about our situation and my feelings towards her or step back and just do a formal greeting thing.

You should definitely go for the formal greeting thing. If you opt for the other, you may as well give up on ever having any communication with her again. Seriously.

To explain further:

Whether she talks to you, in and of itself, has nothing to do with you. If she wants to talk to you, she will. If she doesn't, there's nothing magic you can say that will make her want to. However, if she is inclined toward talking to you, there are a great host of things you can do that will make her change her mind. Your job is to avoid doing any of those things. One of the worst things you can do is premature declaration of affection. So... don't do that. Play it safe. Keep it cool, as they say.