Your stomach flips, you hang onto their every word, and you relish the private jokes you have with each other. There are moments you are with this person and you wonder, if your life became still then, that would be fine by you.
Then there creep in the reasons why entertaining the very possibility is laughable.
There is geographical distance. There may even be whole oceans in between, and you're pretty sure this relationship can't swim.
There are the emotional barriers. Maybe you are both on irrevocably different walks of life. You occupy totally different levels of existence, and can only survive in the other realm for a short while.
You may want different things. You may have different priorities. You may be totally different people.
But there is no denying that there is something there, something that feels right. And you begin to wonder that maybe you are supposed to take the crazy leap into disarray, and invest in the irrationality of it all.
I've felt this way twice. I venture to say it will happen to me again. Which makes me wonder if life is really all about those missed connections, the longing look that you know you are going to walk by.
There are people who come into our lives that aren't mean to be ours, but serve to remind us that there is someone who eventually could be. They serve to break us down a bit, but to also give us a taste of passion, so we are hungry for it.
And so we wait. We continue to live our lives, bumping into each other until we run into someone we just can't let go.
Interesting post. I think there are various purposes for encounters like this. First off, at an age where we're getting our first true taste of independence, constantly adjusting our beliefs and principles to new epiphanies we find ourselves coming across. Distance aside, even if we meet "the perfect match", whose to say that we will be the same people a year or two down the road? That's what blows my mind about high school sweethearts that make it work - despite all the change, their love remains unchanged...
ReplyDeleteIf nothing else, these situations can either confirm that we're still not ready for something serious, or open our eyes to the reality that perhaps we're beginning to get ready to settle down... As the saying goes "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want".