Reconnection

Here's to finding support in the strangest of places.

A boy I knew in middle and high school who intimidated the crap out of me with his confidence and some kind of strange good looks accidentally messaged me on facebook. At first my reaction was like "no thank you, I don't want to have a conversation where I try to condense the last 5 years of my life into 60 words for you" but I did. And I'm so glad I did! We talked about writing, and he's going to school for journalism after some rocky years figuring it out and we connected on something real in both of our lives that I never expected we had because I always thought of him as someone shallow just looking for a little bit of nothing. It takes a lot for me to get to that place of giving up on someone but after a lot of years of knowing this person vicariously as a sixth degree separation friend I gave up. AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE. there is a real person in there, a real person who knows real shit and cares more about other things and is so honest. I can't really believe we're having a conversation right now that sounds like friends talking. It's pretty weird but really enforces that whimsical faith in people that I had when I was younger.

Sometimes I just really love people a lot. I really love humans.



On another note, last night was our housewarming party and it was so great. There were lots of people and fun and friends and blah blah blah. Fun. I'm glad we know the people we do.