Revisiting that love thing….
Can you fall in love with someone in a day? What if that someone was a person you knew back when? Someone you hadn’t seen in 17 years, when you were shorter, thinner (much thinner) and a stupid, young girl. What if that person was the basis of your ideal? The man that you have spent 17 years comparing every man to. What if he shows up out of the blue one day, a message in your in-box, requesting to be friends? All those old feelings come flooding back…so strong. And you do a little happy dance, clapping your hands, so excited that he FOUND YOU. That he was actually LOOKING for you. You realize, actually have an EPIPHANY, that he’s the guy…subconsiously, you’ve been in love with him for years. Is that even possible? How does that happen? Before you click that link (we all know what link that is), visions of happily ever after dance in your head, your life planned out before you. The two of you blissfully happy…but wait, you’ve not even talked to him yet.
So you send the message to him, “Hey, how’ve you been, looking good”, yadayadayada, praying he answers you that he’s been secretly in love with you for all these years, hoping against hope, knowing it’s almost futile. You wait for what seems an eternity, but it’s really less than a few hours. His answer comes back in your in-box, so you click that magic link again, and lo and behold, he’s online…you can actually talk to him.
That’s the start. Two hours later, you’re floating on a cloud…the impossible happened. He not only has loved you all these years, but he has perfect recall of the first time he met you…the first time you kissed…and not just the emotions, but what you were wearing, how your hair smelled (he remembers the actual SHAMPOO that you used back then), what you taste like…
You reluctantly go to bed, it’s now three o’clock in the morning, and you’ve been talking to him for hours. You convince yourself it’s a dream, he can’t be real, he’s better than you even remember him…and those pictures online show you that the cute boy you lost your heart to all those years ago is now a very handsome man. It’s too good to be true. You did, however, give him your cell phone number, and he has promised to text you.
You wake up the next morning to the sound of your phone going off. You look at the display, your eyes not believing what they’re seeing. It’s a text…from him. Saying Good Morning. So begins a whirlwind romance. Texting constantly throughout the day, meeting online, talking in quick snatches. He loves you, you’ve been in his mind all these years. He’s your ideal, you are his. It seems as though he was made specifically for you. The same interests, the same sense of humor, the same everything, with just enough opposites to make it interesting. He’s everything that you could want in a partner, friend, lover….the only thing stopping you is distance. You don’t even live in the same state…
So is it possible? Is it too good to be true? After all the losers and knights in tinfoil, could you have finally found that perfect someone?
